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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.

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

Jan 20, 2010Center for Environmental HealthEnvironmental Justice

Oil spills. Hazardous waste dumping. Soil and groundwater contamination. Wholesale ravaging of entire ecosystems. Not that you’d know it from their slick ad campaigns about how much they care for people and the environment, but Chevron’s operations have created some...

CEH in the News on Cadmium in Jewelry

Jan 15, 2010Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, General Insights, Legal Action

Earlier this week, the Associated Press released a report in which they exposed high levels of cadmium in jewelry sold at major retail stores. Please read our post, “This Months’ Flavor for Toxic Jewelry: Cadmi-yumm,” for the latest on the issue. CEH...

Is There Life on Mars?

Oct 26, 2009Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

Click here to join the growing thousands of concerned parents who are telling Mars that our children deserve better than the usual corporate runaround. It’s time to stop including pesticides and reckless, untested GMOs in candy.

GMO Halloween Candy: A Pesticide-Laden Horror

Oct 15, 2009Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Food, General Insights

Tell Hershey’s and Mars to keep our kids safe and to end their use of genetically-modified (GMO) sugar today! Sugar from genetailly modified (GMO) beets is now in widespread use, despite worldwide scientific concern about the potential health and environmental...

Do your child’s toys contain lead?

Sep 30, 2009Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

Learn how you can test for lead in your home.

Vote for CEH on Working Assets!

Sep 29, 2009Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

Working Assets members: vote for CEH.

The Dirty Secrets about E-Waste Dumping Exposed in PBS Documentary

Jun 25, 2009Center for Environmental HealthEnvironmental Justice, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

If you missed the PBS Frontline Documentary “Digital Dumping Ground,” it’s not too late to view this eye-opening 20 minute documentary. The video documents the rampant dumping of toxic electronic waste (e-waste) in developing countries and the ensuing public and...

Energy Saving Tips

May 14, 2009Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Energy, Tips, Uncategorized

Here are some tips for saving energy (and money) when using your electronics: Set the power saving options on your computer and peripherals.Computer power management features can save you $25 to $75 per desktop computer and monitor each year. By enabling your power...