Chemicals & Chemistry

Like the word "chemical," the word "pesticide" has been hijacked and then unfairly demonized.

Trial lawyers are cheering that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California ordered EPA to finalize its proposed ban on chlorpyrifos but the science is even less settled t

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Companies left and right are banning plastic straws because ocean critters are important - with no evidence getting rid of plastic straws is really helping marine critters at all. While I shake my head at that, I am not surprised.

The Atacama Desert is an inhospitable place.

Carvone is terpene (See Essential Oils - Not What The Name

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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) just issued a policy statement about common chemicals found in trace amounts in food, all of which have been in use for at least 50 years.

I'm in New York City and a storm just finished. Though the forecast had only shown a slight chance of rain a few hours earlier, suddenly there were flash flood warnings and the Yankees went ahead and postponed their game.

Do you use plastic bags? Do you drink from plastic straws?