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• Retailers accused of not warning about flame retardant
• Carcinogen found in children's products
• Chemicals in Furniture Target of California Lawmakers
• Chemicals in Furniture Hard to Avoid
• Lead-tainted candy from Asia sold in Bay Area stores
• Oakland group finds lead in lots of plum, ginger candies
• Lead found in Asian candies
• Lead Lurking in Purses, Wallets and Sandals
• California Releases Draft Rules to Reduce Chemicals of Concern in Consumer Products
• Guidelines help ID toxic home products
• California Avgas Case Continues While New Timeline Set for Alternative
• Lead found in many purses, bags, and wallets
• Are Toxic Chemicals In Your Home Your Problem?
• Chemicals in furniture target of Calif. lawmakers
• Purses With Lead Sold at Popular Retailers, Consumer Group Finds
• Organic Cosmetics: Center For Environmental Health Sues Dozens Of Companies For Allegedly False Labels
• Stop The Toxic Insults : They Aren't Helping
• Cadmium-laced jewelry removed from stores
• Consumer Safety Group Files First Lawsuit On Risks of Nanotechnology
• A Holiday Gift For Generations to Come
• Suit Sees Lead Risk in Bounce Houses
• Tween Brands Recalls Children's Metal Jewelry Due to High Levels of Cadmium
• Center for Environmental Health Crusades
• Major Retailers Agree to Limit Lead in Handbags
• Target Pulls Valentine's Toys over Lead Concerns
• 2 Stores Pull Necklaces on Toxic Cadmium Concern
• Cadmium Found in Adult Jewelry; 1 Store Pulls Item
• High Levels of Lead in Purses
• Chemical Turns Up in Children's Jewelry
• My Word: Congress Must Give Port of Oakland Authority to Set Standards to Help Truckers
• A Partisan Assault On Child Safety Law
• Heavy Metals: Are Zhu Zhu Toys Toxic?
• Zhu Zhu Pets Dangerous for Kids?
• Toys with High Lead Levels
• 7 Toys and Other Products Exceed Lead Limits, California Says
• Effort to Ban BPA in California Fails
• Major Retailers Sell Jewelry with High Lead Amounts
• Third-Party Safety Tests Not Required by Mattel
• Playing with Lead (Parts I and II)
• AstroTurf to Eliminate Lead from Fields
• Guide to Lead-Free Back to School Products
• Jewelry Labeled "Lead Free" Exceeded Limits, State Says
• California Women May Be Carrying Lead in Their Purse
• Popular Purses May Carry Dangerous Levels Of Lead
• Fewer Kids Have High Levels of Lead than 20 Years Ago
• Playing with Lead
• Retailers Rush to Comply with Lead Law
• Retailers Face Penalties for Selling Toxic Toys
• Regulators Delay New Rules for Testing Lead in Toys
• Lead Toy Testings in Bay Area
• Parents Line Up to Test Toys for Lead at San Rafael Clinic
• California Adopts Tough Bus, Truck Pollution Rule
• California Toy Testing Events Protect Kids from Lead
• Guerrilla Toy Testers Take Aim at Lead
• State Orders Diesel Trucks to Clean Up
• Toys on Sale Could be Banned Due to Lead (ABC-7)
• Wal-Mart to Toughen Standards (New York Times)
• California Needs More 'Green Chemistry' Action Heroes (New America Media)
• Suits Filed over Lead in Artificial Turf (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Turf War: California Sues Fake-Grass Makers over Lead Content (Los Angeles Times)
• Clones' Offspring May Be in Food Supply (Reuters)
• Lead wheel weights to be phased out in California by end of 2009 (Los Angeles Times)
• Casinos Get the Lead out of Poker Chips (SFGate.com)
• Fountain of Fun, or Snake in the Grass? (Washington Post)
• Gamblers to be Warned of Lead in Vegas Company's Poker Chips (Las Vegas Sun, Aug 01 2008)
• Fields are Safe? - Synthetic Athletic Fields are No Longer Deemed Health Hazards
• Oakland Group Helps Enact Tough Toy Safety Rules; (CBS 5, Aug 1 2008)
• Enviro-Labor Coalitions Challenge Two Toxic Pesticides; (Environment News Service, Jul 31 2008)
• Artifical Turf Makers Tout Safety Report; House Member Skeptical; (USA Today, Jul 31 2008)
• Senator Calls for Action on Turf Fields; (USA Today, Jun 26 2008)
• Group Warns of Lead in Turf; (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Artificial Turf Target of Legal Action; (San Jose Mercury News)
• State Vows to Ensure Moth Spraying Is Safe; (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Lead Found in Disney Charms, U.S. Group Says (Reuters)
• Be Wary of Lead in Dog Toys; (The Oregonian)
• L.A. Firm Is Fined $10 Million Over Lead-Tainted Lunchboxes; (Los Angeles Times)
• Scientists, Researchers, NGOs, and DCA Lead Electronics Industry to Environmental Victory; (PR-USA)
• Center for Environmental Health Challenges Big Business to Create a Healthier World (Oakland Mag)
• Groups Petition EPA to Ban Nanosilver in Consumer Goods (Washington Post)
• Environmental Group Says Diaper Bags Tainted with Lead (KPBS News)
• Some Disney Hannah Montana Products Test High for Lead (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Toxic Toys? (PBS)
• Not All Apples Are Created Equal (Earth Island Journal)
• Hannah Montana Toys Tainted With Lead? (CBS)
• Hannah Montana Gear Has Excessive Lead, Group Says (Los Angeles Times)
• Should Consumers Trust Toy Retailers Again? (San Jose Mercury Times)
• Get the Lead Out Now! (Wall Street Journal)
• Clone Wars (Metro)
• War on Plastic Toys Escalates (Consumer Affairs)
• Protests Spur Stores to Seek Substitute for Vinyl in Toys (Wall Street Journal)
• High Lead Levels Are Found in Vinyl Plastic Baby Products (New York Times)
• California Moves to Regulate Lead in Adult Jewelry (Oakland Tribune)
• Effects of Baby Products Studied (Baltimore Sun)
• Nonprofit Finds Big Problems in Kids' Products (Oakland Tribune)
• Getting the Lead Out of Jewelry (Los Angeles Times)
• Hey Mom, Which Bin Does the E-waste Go In? (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Lead Found in Toy Jewelry (Los Angeles Times)
• Test in S.F. Finds Lead in Lots of Toys (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Citizen Vigilance Leads to Toy Recalls (New York Times)
• Vigilant Mom Helps Sniff Out Lead
• Taking Lead Safety Into Its Own Hands (Washington Post)
• Congress Weighs Sweeping Overhaul of Consumer Product Commission (Wall Street Journal)
• Home Lead Test Kits and Bush Administration Plaming (Huffington Post)
• Apple Faces Legal Threat Over 'Toxic' iPhone (The Times)
• Group's Suit Alleges Toxin in iPhones: Complaint Says Law Requires Warning Label of Removal
• iPhone Faces Toxic Challenge (Sacramento Bee)
• Apple Could Face Environmental Lawsuit (MacWorld)
• Curious George Dolls May Have High Lead Levels (LA Times)
• Disposal a Murky Issue in Recall of Lead-tainted Items (LA Times)
• Toys Need Regulating (Washington Post)
• State Finds Lead Hazard in its Free Lunch Totes (LA Times)
• Playing with Poison (Good Housekeeping)
• Toy Firms Outline Delays in Recalls: Can Take a Month After CPSC is Told About Lead Presence
• Barbie's Home Ruled a Toxic Site (Salon.com)
• Lead Astray (Parents)
• Admitting Error, Toys R Us Pulls Bibs (NY Times)
• Some Baby Bibs Said to Contain Levels of Lead
• Get the Lead Out
• Wal-Mart Recalls Baby Bibs For Worries Over Lead Content
• Wal-Mart Recalls Lead-Containing Bibs
• Lead in Candy
• Green Machines: Health Care IT Can Improve Care, Hurt Environment
• What's Ahead for CEH and Proposition 65?
• S.F. Retailers Battle Ban on Bisphenol-A
• Michael Green Pursues a Cleaner, Greener Future
• Caltrans to Check on Dust from Weekend Bay Bridge Project
• Not Easy to Get the Lead Out of Our Lives
• 3 Candy Firms Settle State Suite
• Mexican Candy Makers Will Get the Lead Out
• Growing Worry for Businesses: Old Computers
• Child's Death Prompts Recall
• The Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
• Safety Alert: Boy's Death Linked to Lead Bracelet, but Hazards Go Beyond Jewelry
• Leading the Fight Against Lead
• 71 Firms Agree to Sell Kids' Jewelry With Reduced Lead
• Bay Area Companies Join Forces to Phase Out PVC Plastics
• On the Path of Service
• Lead Warning in the Garden
• Tuxedo Firm to End Use of Solvent
• Environmentalists Protest Apple's 'Iwaste'
• Electronics, Lead, and Landfills
• Lockyer Alleges Misuse of Funds
• Some Local Lawmakers Flunk Environmental Group's Test
• Anti-toxics Law Cited in Legal Action Against Salmon Farms
• Lawsuit Prompts Change in Medicine
• Plastic Fantastic
• Industry to Phase Out Arsenic-tainted Wood
• Out of the Furnace but...
• Arsenic-Treated Lumber May Increase Cancer Risk
• Oakland Waste Operation Suspended