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Is Lipstick Killing Us?

A recent study in the May 2 Environmental Health Perspectives reveals that commercial lipstick and lip gloss products contain potentially hazardous levels of heavy metals, such as aluminum, cadmium, chromium and manganese. The study also notes that young people (i.e. teenage girls) tend to absorb heavy metals they are exposed to at higher rates than […]

Haiti and Toxic Waste

by Mitchel Cohen Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. First it went […]

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