When Life Hands You Toxic Chemicals, Make Toxic Chemicalsade

“Chemicals are everywhere in the modern world and some of them can be very dangerous. Today’s decision is an important step toward better protecting our health and the environment.”
 — EU environment commissioner Janez Potocnik on the decision to ban the use of plastic-softening phthalates “DEHP, BBP and DBP, the fragrance Musk Xylene, flame-retardant HBCDD, or the epoxy resin-hardener MDA.” Typical European cowardice. Here in the U.S., we let evolution take its course to develop a genetic mutation that reduces susceptibility to PCBs and dioxins, like in the Atlantic tomcod that thrive in the toxic pollution of the Hudson River.