Greenlist Bulletin 2008 Issues
Greenlist Bulletin is a weekly online publication of the Toxics Use Reduction Institute Library at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, featuring abstracts of recent articles, books and Web sites related to pollution prevention, industrial production, sustainability, and toxics research.
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1. ING sets green initiatives
2. One-of-a-kind Shower Clean Suit has Japan raving
3. CPSC staff finds synthetic turf fields OK to install, OK to play on
4. Slippery customer: a greener antiwear additive for engine oils
5. REACHing for less toxic alternatives
6. Americans willing to pay more for eco-friendly products
7. Lawmakers agree to ban toxins in children's items
8. Rohm & Haas unveils 'green' products
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1. ING sets green initiatives
2. One-of-a-kind Shower Clean Suit has Japan raving
3. CPSC staff finds synthetic turf fields OK to install, OK to play on
4. Slippery customer: a greener antiwear additive for engine oils
5. REACHing for less toxic alternatives
6. Americans willing to pay more for eco-friendly products
7. Lawmakers agree to ban toxins in children's items
8. Rohm & Haas unveils 'green' products
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1. Late lessons from early warnings for nanotechnology
2. EFSA updates advice on bisphenol
3. Microbes alter estrogenic power of surfactant breakdown products
4. French revolution
5. Fresh scent may hide toxic secret
6. U.S. rushes to change workplace toxin rules
7. Midwest's postflood risk: toxic basements
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1. The risk intelligent approach to corporate responsibility & sustainability
2. Phthalates hazard compendium: a summary of physicochemical and human health hazard data for 24 ortho-phthalate chemicals
3. JohnsonDiversey reformulates leading floor care line to meet new environmental standards
4. Chemical companies, health groups spar on consumer safety
5. Corporations can profit from being environmentally friendly, new George Mason University study shows
6. Clean hair, clean air
7. Management concerns about known and potential impacts of lead use in shooting and fishing activities
8. Navigating the wilderness of green business certifications
9. EWG's shopper's guide to safer sunscreens
10. A community guide to environmental health
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1. CDC releases reports on formaldehyde tests of trailers
2. Large question faces science of the small
3. ECHA consults on REACH SVHCs
4. Cleaning process integration of cleaning material with cleaning equipment
5. Most overwhelmed by green marketing, new studies find
6. Decabromodiphenyl ether (Deca-BDE): 2008 legislative fact sheet
7. Research yields pricey chemicals from biodiesel waste
8. Designing "green" plasticizers
9. Along with beauty, fireworks create a beastly mix of pollutants
10. Soil fumigant pesticides subject to new safety measures
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1. Assuring the safety of nanomaterials in food packaging: the regulatory process and key issues
2. Whole systems green cleaning
3. Formaldehyde Emissions from Composite Wood Products; Disposition of TSCA Section 21 Petition
4. Phthalate-free glue
5. Beyond the medicine cabinet: an anlysis of where and why medications accumulate
6. Artificial turf target of legal action
7. Weathercocks and signposts: the environmental movement at a crossroads
8. Inks require no Prop. 65 warning label
9. Most caregivers of young children lack basic knowledge of potentially toxic household products
10. Lab disinfectant harms mouse fertility
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1. Chemical law has global impact
2. McLean Thermal conserves water, saves money
3. NanoRisk: what can you do about it?
4. Environmental benefits of 2007 EPEAT computer purchasing: green IT procuring system's success drives major environmental benefits
5. Canada considers ban of cyclic siloxanes
6. Lean, green design: a key resource for small business
7. Potential exposure to lead in artificial turf: public health issues, actions, and recommendations
8. Unwelcome guest: PBDEs in indoor dust
9. Overview of energy efficiency techniques and resources for Massachusetts industries
10. Poisoned for pennies: the economics of toxics and precaution
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1. Chemical reaction: the U.S. response to REACH
2. Incident diabetes and pesticide exposure among licensed pesticide applicators: agricultural health study, 1993-2003
3. Benchmarking building performance
4. Tracking plastic's breakdown products
5. Mother Nature's antibacterial dyes: bright colors and a knockout punch for germs
6. New study shows that transgenic plants don't hurt beneficial bugs
7. New report: millions of U.S. workers stand to gain from green industries
8. NanoSphere(r) at the cutting edge
9. Rail cargo safety fight heats up
10. Future supply chain 2016: serving customers in a sustainable way
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1. New magnesium hydroxides enabling low-smoke cable compounds
2. Innovations review: making green the new business as usual
3. Pumpkin plants pick up particles
4. Green electronics design and manufacturing: implementing lead-free and RoHS-compliant global products
5. Toxicity of lithium to humans -- a literature review
6. The wheat sheet: a new era of papermaking in Canada
7. One small step for a laboratory science, one green leap for mankind
8. Report: energy use down, costs increasing
9. Lead exposure in children linked to violent crime
10. Electrifying polymers
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1. Chemical assessments: EPA's new assessment process will further limit the productivity and credibility of its Integrated Risk Information System
2. Greening Advisor
3. Red Sox unveil solar hot water panels at Fenway Park
4. Some nanotubes could cause cancer
5. State officials look to make chemical plants safer
6. Lead free HASL
7. EU provides online database detailing 15000 cosmetics ingredients
8. Mission-driven companies seek 'beneficial' label
9. Arsenic in rice: I. Estimating normal levels of total arsenic in rice grain
10. Arsenic in rice: II. Arsenic speciation in USA grain and implications for human health
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1. Enviro-Health Links: Mercury and Human Health
2. Advanced energy design guides free download
3. FDA defends safety of baby bottle chemical
4. Innovation in emerging markets: 2008 annual study
5. Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency
6. Largest global study of consumer response to climate change puts the onus on brands
7. Investigation report: confined vapor cloud explosion (10 injured, and 24 houses and six businesses destroyed). CAI, Inc. and Arnel Company, Inc. Danvers, Massachusetts. November 22, 2006
8. Chemical in gum toxic? Maybe, Ottawa says
9. Does being ethical pay?
10. Chemical cuisine: a guide to food additives
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1. Making nanotubes without harming the environment
2. Mercury levels from products decreasing, though still at dangerous levels
3. Operational change as a profitable cleaner production tool for a brewery
4. The greenwash guide
5. Dust a possible C8 source, EPA study says
6. Survey: green consumers adapt to poor economy
7. Green your facility, boost your bottom line
8. Nanotechnology: better guidance is needed to ensure accurate reporting of federal research focused on environmental, health, and safety risks
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