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In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, No Toxic Chemical Shall Escape Government Oversight

Aug 22, 2011K ChhengChemical Industry, Children's Health, Laws & Regulations

Thor, Captain America, Green Lantern…With all of these superhero movies coming out over the summer, it’s easy to forget one of the most important superheroes—Mom. Many moms and parents across the country have been the champions for environmental health, at the...

A Cleaning Industry Poll Concludes that the Public (gasp) Favors Antibacterial Products!

Mar 1, 2011Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, General Insights

Last month, the American Cleaning Institute and Personal Care Products Council conducted a “poll” of American consumers’ views on and uses of antibacterial soap, in nervous anticipation of the possible EPA ban on triclosan, the antibacterial chemical found in a...

For Lead Testing, Corporate Front-Group is in the Bag

Feb 2, 2011Charles MargulisChemical Industry, Children's Health

CEH recently made news with our findings of high levels of lead in Disney reusable plastic bags sold at Safeway stores. Our concern is that the lead-tainted, children’s-brand bags violate California and federal lead safety standards. Coincidentally, following our...

Take It Personally

Jan 20, 2011Mary BruneChemical Industry, Children's Health, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

On my way into work last Friday I heard a story on NPR about a UCSF study that found dozens of toxic chemicals in the bodies of pregnant women. I’ve written before about the vulnerable environment of the womb, and while I’m not surprised by the findings of this latest...

When the Chemical Industry Attacks, Science Loses

Sep 3, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, General Insights, Uncategorized

In the last few weeks, five out of nine members of a scientific panel that advises the state of California on toxic chemical safety have been fired, following lobbying by the chemical industry and a conservative group, the Pacific Legal Foundation, which targets...

Toxic Chemical Lobby: Exclusive Leaked Footage

Jul 7, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Today, our friends at Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families released their funny, animated video to garner public support for Congressional Action on the Toxic Substances Control Act. Though getting nasty, hazardous chemicals out of consumer products is a serious issue,...

The World of Green Chemistry

Jun 29, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

“Today nearly everything we touch—clothing, furniture, carpeting, cabinets, light bulbs, paper, toothpaste, baby teethers, iPhones, you name it—is synthetic,” Emily Laber-Warren states in her Scientific American article, “Green Chemistry: Scientists Devise New...

Listen to CEH Executive Director Michael Green on Your Call, KALW Radio

May 27, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action

“The reason that the government has focused so much on cure and so little on prevention is because there’s a buck to be made”, Michael Green said on today’s Your Call, KALW Radio program. The topic of today’s Your Call looks at the connections between the parallel...

For Corporate Polluters’ Front Groups, Every Day is Defraud the Earth Day

Apr 22, 2010Charles MargulisChemical Industry, Children's Health, Flame Retardants

If you heard of a great, health-protective advocacy group called Citizens for Fire Safety (CFFS), you might want to learn more before joining their efforts to protect children from fire hazards. So it might really annoy, disappoint, even enrage you to learn that they...

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...