Posted on Mar 31, 2023 | Comments Off on The Biden Administration Doesn’t Need To Approve California’s New Electric Vehicle Mandate But Did Anyway
California and a few other states have more stringent "emissions" regulations that don't really improve the air, but because air crosses state boundaries and more regulations lead to higher costs for consumers they need a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency to force it on the public. Every few years, EPA has dutifully complied and depending on when you ask, California is either...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2023 | Comments Off on PFAS Chemicals Can Be Detected In Canadian Food Packaging – Should You Be Worried?
A new paper notes that they can detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - deemed by environmental activists as "forever" chemicals because they persist from to eight years - in 42 samples of food packaging. Like food bowls that are compostable and sustainable and better for the environment than plastic.Ironically, this new detection, and resulting scare, happened because consumers demanded...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2023 | Comments Off on PFAS Chemicals Can Be Detected In Canadian Food Packaging – Should You Be Worried?
A new paper notes that they can detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - deemed by environmental activists as "forever" chemicals because they persist from to eight years - in 42 samples of food packaging. Like food bowls that are compostable and sustainable and better for the environment than plastic.Ironically, this new detection, and resulting scare, happened because consumers demanded...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2023 | Comments Off on Horses Started In North America, Went Extinct, And Then Europeans Brought Them Back
Genetic research found that horses evolved in North America millions of years ago and spread to Asia and Europe before dying out in the Americas 6,000 years ago.Then in the early 1600s they were back, brought by Europeans, according to a new study.Some stories claimed that natives only got horses after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 , when Spanish were defeated in New Mexico and left those and...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2023 | Comments Off on FDA Approves Narcan Drug Overdose Medication For OTC Sale
The FDA has granted OTC approval of Narcan 4 milligram (mg) naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray to Emergent BioSolutions; the first naloxone product approved for use without a prescription. Naloxone reverses the effects of opioid overdose. Recreational fentanyl use has led to a major public health issue in the United States, with more than 101,000 fatal overdoses occurring last year,...
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