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Manufactured Nanomaterials and Sunscreens: Top Reasons for Precaution
Nanomaterials are already being used (unlabelled) in hundreds of consumer products including sunscreens and cosmetics. This report explains why this is reason for concern.
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A Dangerous Distraction
Why offsets are a mistake the U.S. cannot afford to make
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A Boon to Bad Biofuels
This evaluation by Doug Koplow of EarthTrack for Friends of the Earth estimates the costs of the Renewable Fuel Standard and the various biofuel tax credits.
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Subprime Carbon?: Rethinking the World’s Largest New Derivatives Market
This report is one of the first critical analyses to characterize carbon trading as a massive new derivatives market and . It finds that existing financial regulations, as well as those proposed in ma…
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Out of the Laboratory and Onto Our Plates: Nanotechnology in Food & Agriculture
This report finds that untested nanotechnology is being used in more than 100 food products, food packaging and contact materials currently on the shelf, without warning or FDA testing.
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Big Oil, Bigger Giveaways
This 2008 report offers an analysis of $32.9 billion in tax breaks, subsidies and other handouts the oil & gas industry will receive by 2013.
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Nanotechnology & Sunscreens: A Consumer Guide for Avoiding Nanosunscreens
Many sunscreen manufacturers are now including potentially dangerous manufactured nanoparticles in their sun care products. This underscores the need for labeling requirements and regulation.
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Nanomaterials, Sunscreens and Cosmetics: Small Ingredients, Big Risks
Corporations around the world are rapidly introducing thousands of tons of nanomaterials into the environment and onto the faces and hands of millions of people, despite the growing body of evidence i…
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Green Scissors 2004
The Green Scissors 2004 report focuses on a few particularly egregious policies and programs that should be addressed immediately.