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Dan Josephsonmdash;Getty ImagesBy Jamie DucharmeFebruary 7, 2019 8:10 AM ESTKey West beachgoers will soon be banned from buying sunscreens containing two common ingredients, in an effort to protect the Great Florida Reef.The Key West City Commission voted on Tuesday to forbid the sale of products that contain oxybenzone or octinoxate mdas stanley cup h; two chemicals that help protest t stanley cup he skin from sun damage, but that have also been shown to wash off of swimmers ; bodies and potentially damage already-endangered coral reefs.There are thousands of sunscreens out there, and we have one reef, Key West Mayor Teri Johnston said before the vote, according to the Washington Post. And we have an opportunity to do one small thing to protect that. I believe itrsquo our obligation.The Florida Key will ban the sale of sunscreens containing these ingredients in January 2021. The initiative passed by a vote of 6 to 1.While many sunscreen formulations still contain oxybenzone and octinoxate mdash; including some from Banana Boat, Coppertone and Australian Gold, according to the Environmental Working Group mdash; brands have increasingly begun dropping the chemicals from their products, both for environmental and huma stanley cup n health reasons. While both are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, oxybenzone has been linked to hormone disruption, and some animal studies have suggested that octinoxate may be an endocrine disruptor and potential carcinogen, though rese Epxq Wal-Mart Wants to Buy Your Used Video Games
By Katy SteinmetzUpdated: April 13, 2018 12:42 PM [ET] | Originally published: April 12, 2018 5:10 PM EDT;During almost ten hours of hearings this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questions from nearly 100 members of Congress. And more than a dozen of them brought up the Federal Trade Commission. While questions about that agency may no ugg t have made for the sexiest soundbites, its actions may prove to be one of the most important factors in whether Congress actually regulates Big Tech, or just continues to talk about doing so.The FTC is more of a law enforcement agency than a rule-making one, and one of its primary mandates is protecting consumers from unfair and deceptive practices. Following revelations about Cambridge Analytica, a p adidas samba olitical marketing firm that improperly obtained personal information from approximately 87 million Facebook user profiles, the FTC announced that it was opening an investigation into Facebook privacy practices. Tom Pahl, the acting director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement that the agency is firmly and fully committed to using all of its tools to protec nike dunk t the privacy of consumers.This is a big deal mdash; the company stock took a hit as reports of the investigation surfaced mdash; in part because Facebook has been in the agency sights before. In 2012, the social media behemoth reached a final settlement with the FTC over charges that the company previously deceive