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The 2011 Toxie awards, ready to meet their recipients.

XRF testing at the Toxies!

CEH and CHANGE Program Coordinator Christina Medina takes a minute to describe XRF testing.

Post-ceremony taking a break with the Toxies winners!

Thanks to the amazing 2011 Toxies team, including top sponsors CA Wellness Foundation, Participant Media, and Ecorazzi.com!

Checking in and waiting for the bad actor chemicals to arrive...

Toxies Security Visperd and Dioxin (Alejandro Sandoval).

$UCLA Sustainable Technology & Policy Program\'s Christina Batteate.$

Dioxin (Alejandro Sandoval)

Toxies Security Visperd escorts

Catching the action as the bad actor chemicals approach the red carpet!

Halogenated Flame Retardant (Iliana Carter-Ramirez)

Perchloroethylene,

Toxies Security Visperd and Perchlorate (Denise Duffield)

Perchlorate (Denise Duffield)

$Methyl Iodide\'s coming after your strawberries! Say No to Methyl Iodide.$

Toxies volunteers

Methyl Iodide (John Hale)

Methyl Iodide (John Hale)

Methyl Iodide (John Hale)

Mercury and Lead.

Mercury (Edward Enriquez-Cohen)

The battle of the elements heats up! Mercury and Lead causing trouble in the audience.

Dioxin sitting comfortably between Formaldehyde and BPA.

Hostess Adriana Caro adjusts her gas mask, getting ready to hand Toxies to the bad actor chemicals.

Hostess Adriana Caro, Videographer John Gannon, Emcee Cecil Corbin-Mark.

CHANGE Coordinator Christina Medina.

CHANGE Coordinator Christina Medina being interviewed by KPFK.

The Toxies crowd awaits.

The awards ceremony begins!

Formaldehyde (Vivian Thi)

Formaldehyde scoots off the stage with her Toxie!

Dioxin (Alejandro Sandoval)

Toxies Hostess Adriana Caro, Dioxin (Alejandro Sandoval) and Toxies Emcee Cecil Corbin-Mark of WE ACT for Environmental Justice.

Guest presenter Assemblymember Mike Gatto starts his introduction of

Bisphenol-A (BPA) walks off with her Toxie for

Methyl Iodide checks his cash as he approaches the stage for his Toxie award...

$Proud to win \"Worst Replacement Actor in a Series,\" Methyl Iodide basks in the moment.$

Methyl Iodide (John Hale)

Methyl Iodide (John Hale) returns to his seat.

A mix of wild emotions, Mercury gets ready to storm the stage for his 2011 Toxie!

Mercury (Edward Enriquez-Cohen)

Mercury (Edward Enriquez-Cohen), gets ready to approach the stage!

Emcee Cecil Corbin-Mark introduces Mercury.

Mercury heats up.

Halogenated Flame Retardant (Iliana Carter-Ramirez)

Emcee Cecil Corbin-Mark:

A supervillain plots...

Halogenated Flame Retardant accepts her

Halogenated Flame Retardant takes her Toxie.

And the next Toxie goes to...

Assemblymember Holly Mitchell gives Lead the kind of introduction he deserves...

Guest presenter Assemblymember Holly Mitchell

And the winner for

Assemblymember Holly Mitchell greets Lead (Juan Rodriguez).

Lead (Juan Rodriguez)

$Participant Media\'s Courtney Sexton gives the introduction for$

Perchlorate (Denise Duffield)

Toxies attendees from the CLEAN Carwash Campaign!

Perchloroethylene (Perc) gets ready to get on stage!

Perc (Oliver Rayon)

$Halogenated Flame Retardants wins People\'s Choice!!$

PSR-LA Executive Director Martha Dina Arguello addresses the Toxies attendees!

CHANGE Campaign Director Kathryn Alcantar and PSR-LA Executive Director Martha Dina Arguello.

CHANGE Campaign Director Kathryn Alcantar.

Winners of the 2011 Toxies!

Mercury takes front and center for the 2011 Toxies group shot!

$Mercury is interviewed by Environment CA\'s Pam Palitz.$

Perchlorate poses with Toxies sponsors and producers.

Perchlorate and PSR-LA Associate Director, Denise Duffield.

$CEH and CHANGE\'s Christina Medina interviews Lead.$

$CEH and CHANGE\'s Kathryn Alcantar interviews Halogenated Flame Retardant.$

$Black Women For Wellness\' Nourbese Nana Flint interviews$

Formaldehyde gets ready for her big interview.

$BPA and Reproductive Justice Coalition of Los Angeles\' Juana Rosa Cavero.$

Kids do not like BPA.

Toxies Security Visperd!

Dioxin (Alejandro Sandoval) takes a break during the afterparty.

Lead (Juan Rodriguez) takes a break during the afterparty.

Toxies winners arriving...

Toxies Security.

Formaldehyde shows her Brazilian Blowout gone wrong.

BPA, Triclosan and Formaldehyde.

Emcee Cecil Corbin-Mark and Hostess Adriana Caro.

Dioxin and PVC pipes.

Halogenated Flame Retardant (Iliana Carter-Ramirez)

The crowd awaits!

Battle of the elements.

Mercury (Edward Enriquez-Cohen) and Lead (Juan Rodriguez)

Gearing up for the live webstream.

Bad actors storm the stage

2011 Toxies Talent!

At the afterparty.

Proud of the 2011 Toxies.

Stage manager Alberto Barboza instructs the bad actor chemicals.

Mercury causing trouble.

Members of the Reproductive Justice Coalition of Los Angeles with Mercury!

Mercury kissing babies?

Mercury exposure starts young!

Lining up after the ceremony.

UCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program poses with garment care bad boy, Perc.

Mercury gets interviewed by Environment CA and TakePart.

$Worksafe\'s Sophie Noero interviews Perchloroethylene \"Perc,\" 2011 Toxies \"Worst Dressed\" award recipient! (Actor: Oliver Rayon)$

$CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative\'s Lisa Fu interviews Formaldehyde!$

$Environment CA\'s Pam Palitz interviews Mercury.$

BPA poses with Black Women for Wellness and members of the Reproductive Coalition of Los Angeles.

$Black Women for Wellness\' Nourbese Nana Flint.$

Toxies Creative Consultant Jana Diaz Juhl and Mercury.

Mercury (Edward Enriquez-Cohen) and Jana Diaz Juhl.

PSR-LA Executive Director Martha Dina Arguello with PSR-LA members.

$Kathryn Alcantar gets ready to interview the \"Super Hot Mess\" winner, Halogenated Flame Retardant.$

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