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Leave it Out of the Landfill- Composting for Your Home or Small Business

Sep 27, 2012Center for Environmental HealthTips

This post was written by Guest Blogger Tim Eyre. More and more, municipalities across the United States are looking for ways to avoid filling their areas’ landfills. The reason is usually economics: cities and towns can’t afford to purchase more space and...

Protect Your Home & Family

Sep 6, 2012Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

Our homes can be particularly toxic places for children and pets (who spend a lot of their time on or near the floor). CEH makes the following recommendations for reducing toxicity in your home. Baby Bibs Vinyl baby bibs (and cotton bibs with vinyl backings) often...

Air Pollution and the Olympics

Aug 6, 2012Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights

Tahmina Kohistani, the only female Afghan track athlete competing in the London Olympics, trains in the Afghan capital Kabul – a city with some of the worst air pollution in the world. In the Afghan capital alone, the number of deaths caused by air pollution...

The Plastic Bag Ban: Convenience Has Its Consequences

Jul 24, 2012Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Billions of plastic bags are given away each year by grocery stores across the globe, polluting the planet and our bodies. Over the past year, Wales has seen the number of plastic bags given away by stores fall by up to 96%. What could this country have done to force...

Coke’s Plant Plastics: Not The Real Thing?

Jul 3, 2012Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Food, Tips

Plastic. Is. Everywhere. Though many people hate to admit it, plastic is an essential part of our day to day lives (although some people are pushing the no-plastics envelope). We hear the question “Paper or plastic?” every time we leave the grocery store. Small...

Video: CEH at Youth Radio

Sep 1, 2011Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Tips, Uncategorized

Watch CEH’s visit to Youth Radio for their Brains and Beakers event to show students how they use an X-ray gun to test the chemical makeup — and safety — of fashion accessories and household items. Youth Radio Video

Warning: Your Baby Contains Toxic Chemicals!

Oct 28, 2010Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Food, Tips

Crossposted at SupernaturalMom.com Hundreds of toxic chemicals, including PCBs, DDT, endocrine disruptors, and dioxins — to name just a few — are showing up in mothers’ and their newborn babies’ bodies. These chemicals, found in everyday household products, can get...

Tell Your Representatives to Retire Bad Actor Chemicals

Mar 5, 2010Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

Tell your representatives to phase out the worst of the worst toxic chemicals. Please click here to learn more and to take action.

Tell EPA: No Secret Ingredients in Pesticides

Jan 25, 2010Center for Environmental HealthChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations

Inert ingredients are the thousands of chemicals that the pesticide industry is allowed to keep secret. Some of these chemicals are anything but inert: they can cause cancer, genetic damage, reproductive harm, and other serious health problems. EPA recently announced...

Tell Chevron: It’s Time to Take Responsibility for the Amazon Chernobyl

Jan 20, 2010Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

Please sign this petition from CEH ally Amazon Watch to tell John Watson, Chevron’s new CEO, to do the right thing and clean up the company’s mess in Ecuador.