Charlie Pizarro, Author at Center for Environmental Health

Hey Feds: Manage Your Toxic E-Waste Responsibly!

Mar 11, 2011Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

The federal government is one of the largest purchasers of electronics in the United States. That means that every day our government generates untold tons of highly toxic, electronic waste. So here’s the $64,000 public health question: are our government agencies...

A Note from the You May Now Rest Easily Department

Nov 15, 2010Charlie PizarroLaws & Regulations

US Congress member John Shimkus (R – IL) is now pursuing the chair of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. But that’s just politics and energy and the kind boring stuff that flashes by on C-SPAN as I dance between Fox News and MTV. Who...

Environmental Health is Economic Health

Jul 27, 2010Charlie PizarroChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

Next time you hear a chemical industry rep (or one of their many fronts) whine about how eliminating toxic chemicals will be too expensive, will wreck our economy, will cause another outbreak of socialism, body odor, and/or Paris Hilton, just remember this number: ...

Take Action: Stand Up for Good Jobs and Clean Air!

May 4, 2010Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice

Though I really do crave it, that new flat-screen TV would be a guilty pleasure. I mean I’ve got a working set, and the new one would doubtlessly be made in Asia, brought here on a ship, loaded onto an 18-wheel diesel truck, carried to a major retailer’s regional...

Cancer Cluster Found at Samsung

Apr 26, 2010Charlie PizarroChildren's Health, Environmental Justice

A cancer cluster has been discovered among factory workers at Samsung. Click here to sign a petition demanding the company protect its workers.

Come See a Just and Sustainable Way to Twist, Turn on, and Flush

Apr 15, 2010Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice, General Insights, Uncategorized

SF Bay Area folks: do yourself a favor and come to the opening of Literacy for Environmental Justice’s Living Classroom on People’s Earth Day, Sunday, April 18, 2010.) _______________________________________ Water. Energy. Waste treatment. I’m going to make a case...

The Petroleum Industry’s Legislators Want Oil, Not Olive Branches

Apr 5, 2010Charlie PizarroEnergy, General Insights, Uncategorized

Wouldn’t you know it? One day I agree to stop tarnishing this exalted space with four-letter words, and the next day the president goes and vows to open enormous stretches of protected coastline to oil drilling. Here’s the G-rated version of my reaction....

Californians: Stop Pesticide Secrets

Mar 30, 2010Charlie PizarroUncategorized

Urge your California Senator and Assemblymember to stop allowing secret, sometimes toxic ingredients in pesticides. We can’t let this opportunity slip by.

How Are You Enjoying the Best Week of the Year?

Mar 18, 2010Charlie PizarroChildren's Health, General Insights, Uncategorized

It’s springtime. The days are getting longer. Giants’ pitchers are gearing up to hang o-fers up and down the Dodgers’ overrated lineup. And better than all these indisputable truths is the fact that daylight saving time has begun. So, in search of tips to...

Your Captain Has Illuminated the “Profligate Waste” Sign – Please Throw Something Away

Mar 15, 2010Charlie PizarroGeneral Insights, Uncategorized

By the time the attendant came by to see to my in-flight comfort, I’d already completed an urgent cost-benefit analysis. If I really wanted my friends at SouthJetUniBlueWest Airlines to supply me with the three Jack Danielses that reliably equip me to spend time in a...