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Get the Lead Out (of Lipstick)
By Mia Davis Get the Lead Out Originally published at Crazy, Sexy, Life Dear Cosmetics Industry: Please stop defending lead and other nasty chemicals in your products. Love, Mia A $25 tube of department store lipstick should be safe, right? You might assume it is safer than $2 drugstore brand. Not necessarily … During the busy 2011 holiday season, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its new data on 400 popular lipsticks sold in the U.S. These products are contaminated with widely varying levels of lead, including higher amounts than found in earlier studies. Perhaps the
Going After the Chesapeake
By Andy Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director Rep Goodlatte is putting this at risk On March 8, 2012, Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA6) introduced H.R. 4153, a disastrous proposal misnamed the “Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act.” Rep Goodlatte's bill would not only remove important federal oversight for the Chesapeake, like limits on discharging pollutants, but also attempts to undermine President Obama's Executive Order to restore and protect the Bay. This bill needs to be stopped. If enacted, this bill would end all hope of restoration of the Chesapeake, or its
The Ag Connection
By Jennifer Clary, California Policy Associate A report released today by the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California Davis sheds provides the broadest look to date about the sources and solutions of nitrate contamination of groundwater in some of the most heavily farmed areas of California. The report “ Addressing Nitrate in California’s Drinking Water,” a two-year effort funded by the State Water Board with Prop 84 funds, provides a clear look at the impact of agriculture on our drinking water supplies. It’s not good Nitrate is one of the most common groundwater
Booster-ism +
By Michael Kelly, Director of Online Communications Fracking in Weld County We’re used to a little booster-ism from our elected officials for the industries and causes they support (see all the wild and varying claims about the hundreds of thousands of jobs that could be created by the XL Pipeline). It’s what they do. But we normally don’t expect that enthusiasm to include false statements. Especially from a politician who has been an ally in the fight against fracking. That's why we were so surprised and disappointed when we heard Governor Hickenlooper’s radio ad for the Colorado Oil and Gas
Colorado: new public disservice ads about oil and gas
By Amy Mall, NRDC This post was originally published at Switchboard , NRDC's staff blog There is something unusual about the latest newspaper and radio advertisements from the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA). While there is nothing new about the oil and gas industry spending money to convince Americans that fracking is safe, what sets the latest ads apart from typical industry propaganda is that the spokesperson in these ads is Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. In the radio ad, the Governor states that Colorado has not had "one instance of groundwater contamination associated with
