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As California accelerates its efforts to reduce greenhouses gases over the next decade, experts are pointing to vulnerabilities in its celebrated cap-and-trade system, weaknesses that could make the state’s goals difficult—even impossible—to reach. Cap and trade, featuring a market where permission to pollute is bought and sold, is a key mechanism California uses to lower the volume of harmful discharges by industries that are subject to state emissions caps. But as the California Air Resources Board ponders a major retrofitting of the highly complex program, state...

From Banana Boat to Coppertone, major sunscreen brands may soon have to revamp their products or stop selling them in Hawaii.

State lawmakers passed legislation Tuesday that would ban skin-care companies from selling and distributing sunscreens on the islands that contain two chemicals deemed damaging to coral reefs. Read more

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Chemotherapy can be given in a variety of ways. Now European researchers have added another method to the list for patients with peritoneal mesothelioma: Aerosol chemotherapy sprayed into the belly. A recent study reported outcomes for 24 patients who underwent the novel procedure.

Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy, or PIPAC, shrunk tumors and relieved symptoms in more than half of patients. The study was published in the April edition of BMC Cancer. Read more

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