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A group of public health advocates announced on February 27, that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will consider removing its approval of lead acetate in hair dyes such as Grecian Formula. The group filed a joint petition that requires FDA to revisit a 1980 decision allowing the neurotoxin and carcinogen to remain in hair dye. Lead acetate is the active ingredient that slowly darkens grey hair when used every few days.

China is forecasting a significant drop in CO2 emissions of approximately 1%, according to Greenpeace East Asia’s analysis of China’s National Energy Administration forecasts for 2017. This would be the fourth year in a row of either zero growth or a decline in CO2 emissions.

The United States already wastes more money on its nuclear arsenal than all other countries combined. It´s fiction that the US has ‘fallen behind’ on its nuclear capacity and appalling for President Trump to risk a new nuclear arms race, rather than working together with other nuclear states to reduce and ultimately eliminate this most terrifying human invention.

The energy package being discussed, on February 27, by EU energy ministers could endanger the transition to renewable energy and falls well below the action needed, warned Greenpeace. The “Clean Energy for All” package is meant to be the main set of rules for the EU to help limit global temperature increase to 1.5°C, as agreed in Paris. This necessitates a phase-out of all fossil fuel uses and transition to renewables within a generation.

The U.S. EPA finalized a settlement agreement with two N.H. companies for their alleged failure to follow lead-safe work practices and provide proper lead paint disclosure to tenants at a residential property in Manchester, N.H. The agreement ensures that Brady Sullivan Millworks II, LLC and Brady Sullivan Millworks IV, LLC (Brady Sullivan) of Manchester, N.H will comply with federal rules ensuring lead-safe work practices and proper disclosure of information pertaining to lead paint, thus protecting the health of building occupants.

Activists from Greenpeace Nordic and Greenpeace Germany are protesting at a Statoil oil rig in a fjord in northern Norway, on February 27. The activists - in kayaks near the rig - are peacefully protesting against Statoil and the Norwegian government for opening up a new oil frontier in the Arctic.

Smartphone production and disposal over the last 10 years is proving to have a significant impact on our planet, according to a Greenpeace USA report released on February 26. The report shows roughly 968 TWh was used to manufacture smartphones since 2007 - nearly the equivalent of one year’s power supply for India - and the devices contribute significantly to the 50 million metric tonnes of e-waste expected to be generated in 2017.

UNEP Patron for Oceans, Lewis Pugh, is swimming the Seven Seas to urge policy makers to protect at least 10 per cent of the world's seas. In the Arabian Sea off Oman, the seabed was a rubbish dump. No fish. No coral. Just tyres, plastic packets, bottles, cans.

Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares)