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Rockefeller Center is proposing to rip out its glowing glass signage in favor of LEDs. It joins a heap of others.

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That black plastic spatula in your kitchen drawer? It may be time to toss it. Recently, there’s been lots of buzz about the dangers of cooking with black plastic utensils — think spoons ...

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A third of the products CR tested had accessible button batteries, which are a choking hazard and can burn body tissue if swallowed or inserted into a nose or an ear.

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Starting Monday, more than 170 countries will converge in Busan, Republic of Korea, to negotiate a new legally binding global treaty to end plastic pollution, including marine pollution. This is the ...

Liu's study looked at a family of related chemicals called brominated flame retardants, or BFRs, which she said are added to plastic parts of electronics in order to reduce the flammability of the ...

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