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03/25/2016 / By Julie Wilson

50,000 Texans have high levels of arsenic in their tap water, finds Austin-based environmental group

Some 50,000 Texans are drinking tap water contaminated with potentially unsafe levels of arsenic, according to a Washington, D.C.- and Austin-based environmental group. The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reviewed more than a decade’s worth of data and discovered that 34 Texas communities “have violated the Safe Drinking Water standard for arsenic,” for at least the […]

03/24/2016 / By Julie Wilson

Texas woman suffers allergic reaction to plant-based hair dye

Several years ago, Chemese Armstrong, 34, from Abilene, Texas, learned that she was allergic to an industrial chemical commonly found in permanent hair dyes called paraphenylenediamine (PPD), used for the natural look it gives to colored hair. Trying to avoid an allergic reaction, and at the behest of her dermatologist, Armstrong visited a salon in […]

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