2012 Toxies Ceremony
Click on image to enlarge and view entire photo. Photos by G.McCarthy/Gary Leonard Photography and Chico Cortinas.
HRF smolders in her seat
Ultrafine gets ready for the danger zone
Cocky and confident Dioxin awaits his award
Chloropicrin and Nitrates get cozy
BPA loves babies. Not.
TCE is happy to be a Toxie
Fracking Chemical Cocktail shows off her secret concoctions
Host Tex Doolittle takes the stage
Tex introduces Consuelo Conatminacion
Consuelo takes the stage
Tex and Consuelo - Hosts in Harm
The nominees for Worst Local Performance are...
Lead!
Nitrates!
Nitrates strikes a familiar starlet pose
Ultrafine Particulate Matter is announced
Nominees for Worst Local Performance
And the winner is...Ultrafine Particulate Matter!
Ultrafine Particulate Matter even gets in your bloodstream
Worst Hair and Makeup Nominee Formaldehyde
Phthalates heads for the stage
Toxic beauties Phthalates and Formaldehyde vamp
Sodium Hydroxide is announced
Sodium Hydroxide waves with excitement
And the winner is - Sodium Hydroxide!
Sodium Hydroxide straightens hair but messes up health
Sodium Hydroxide mocks flat irons
And the nominees for Worst Workplace Drama are...
Chloropicrin the tear-jerker!
Chloropicrin is a bad boy pesticide
Percholorethylene!
Perchloroethylene waves to toxic dry-cleaning fans
Perc and Chloropicrin - macho toxins
Trichloroethylene - TCE - is announced!
TCE parades to the stage
TCE salutes the military and aerospace industries
Worst Workplace Drama nominees await the winner
It's Chloropicrin! Perc can't believe it!
TCE is crushed
Yellow Soap pulls a Kayne West
Yellow soap can't be stopped
A Yellow Soap "supporter" grabs the mic
Yellow Soap demands recognition for harming car wash workers
Finally, Chloropicrin gets his acceptance speech
Nitrates blows kisses to pesticide partner Chloropicrin
BPA takes the stage for Worst Ball-Breaking Performance
Femme fatale Pthalates follows suit
Phthalates and BPA for Worst Ball-Breaking Performance
Dioxin takes the stage
Dioxin gets down with Consuelo
Dioxin, Phthalates, and BPA
Worst Ball-Breaking Performance Nominees await winner
And the winner is...Dioxin!
Dioxin encourages burning plastics
Formaldehyde is nominated for Worst Replacement in a Series
Halogenated Flame Retardants - HFR - smokes to the stage
Poison in
Poison out
Phthalates and HFR await the next nominee
HFR blows smoke
GMO is announced!
GMO strides to the stage
No faking it - GMO's delighted
HFR is not impressed with GMO
Worst Replacement in a Series nominees
A broken and banned Methyl Iodide returns to present award
Methyl Iodide says he is "winning!"
Methyl Iodide not in good shape
Pesticide Methyl Iodide clings to his strawberries
And the winner is....
Halogenated Flame Retardants!
HFR accepts her award for Worst Replacement in a Series
HFR vows to keep reinventing herself
HFR takes one last defiant drag
Fracking Chemical Cocktail is nominated for Worst Performance in a Mystery
Fracking Chemical Cocktail awaits other nominees
GMO is called back for another nomination!
GMO moves in mysterious ways
Fracking Chemical Cocktail and GMO - double trouble
Deadly HFR is nominated again!
Nominees for Worst Performance in a Mystery
Fracking wins Worst Performance in a Mystery!
Fracking thanks multi-national oil and gas companies
Fracking starts to shake
Loud rumbling, smoke, and then KABAM!
Fracking - Oops! I had a fraccident!
HFR vows to be extra bad next time
GMO wonders if she isn't bad enough to win
Fracking looks forward to more contamination gigs
Hosts prepare to announce Lifetime Achievement in Harm
Lead is nominated
Mercury is nominated
PCBs is nominated
Lead, Mercury and PCBs await the winner
And the winner is...lead!
Lead trumps Mercury saying Lead is forever!
Mercury - Nooooooo! Ese premio es mio!!!!!!!
PCBs joins in the toxic trouble
Security has to break up the maddness
All Toxies await the People's Choice award
And the winner is...
GMO!
GMO delights in the People's Choice Award!
GMO: You don't like me! You really don't like me!
GMO asks people not to vote to label her in the fall
Over 1,000 votes were cast in the Peoples Choice award
Toxies coordinator Ana Mascarenas takes the stage
Ana thanks supporters, organizers, and guests
Martha Dina Arguello, Sophie Noero, Lupita Garcia
Martha Dina Arguello, Sophie Noero, Lupita Garcia
Ana and Sophie Noero high five
Martha high fives
Toxies ceremony director Jana Diaz Juhl is applauded
Applause for all
Applause for Ana
Tex closes out the Toxies
Toxies post for their parting shots
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