Children's Health Archives - Page 16 of 30 - Center for Environmental Health

Urge Senator Feinstein to Support the Safe Chemicals Act!

Nov 9, 2011Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations, Tips

YOU can participate in bringing about greater Senate support for the Safe Chemicals Act! CALL or SEND a message (or both!) to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office and ask her to sign-on as a co-sponsor of the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. Tell Senator Feinstein: I want...

Sleeping with the Enemy: Are There Toxins in your Tot’s Crib?

Nov 8, 2011Mary BruneChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations, Tips

Crossposted from Making Our Milk Safe (MOMS) blog. Even though my son is now three years old, I can still recall how nervous I was around his sleep habits when he was a newborn. If he slept longer than the expected 3-4 hours at a stretch, I would hover over his crib,...

Wall Street Makes Me Sick: Economic Inequality and Our Health

Nov 2, 2011Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Recent events around Occupy Wall Street and local occupy movements around the country have raised concerns about corporate power and inequality that polls show are shared by the majority of Americans. It turns out most Americans are sick and tired of Wall Street...

Greenwash of the Month: Breast Cancer Prevention and Fracking Chemicals Don’t Mix

Oct 31, 2011Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Energy, Environmental Justice, Tips

It’s breast cancer awareness month, and we’ve found a bad case of pinkwashing. For the past two years, Chesapeake Energy Corp., a Marcellus Shale gas-drilling company, has been participating in the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition’s (PBCC) annual “Take a Swing...

Hundreds Celebrate 15 Years of CEH Success!

Oct 28, 2011Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Environmental Justice

On Monday, October 24, more than 250 friends, families, and supporters of the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) toasted the first 15 years of our successful action to protect children and families from harmful chemicals at a gala event in San Francisco. Welcomed...

Danger at Disneyland: Lead Poisoning

Oct 20, 2011Charles MargulisChildren's Health

The “happiest place on Earth” just became a little less happy. Today, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), the Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation (Mateel), and the Ecological Rights Foundation (ERF) reported on high levels of lead found at Disney’s...

Come Party with Us! A Behind-the-Scenes look at CEH’s 15th Anniversary coming up on October 24th

Oct 12, 2011Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

What are you doing on Monday night, two weeks from now? Doesn’t sipping champagne, mingling with famed special guests, hearing about the future of sustainability, and getting the opportunity to score a slew of exceptional auction items sound more thrilling than your...

Laying Down the Evidence: Toxic Flame Retardants in Mattress Pads

Oct 3, 2011Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations

Flame retardant chemicals are a $4 billion a year industry, and the companies that produce these often harmful compounds want to keep it that way, regardless of the health and environmental consequences of their products. This makes it even more important to review...

Greenwash of the Month: “My Teacher Says Plastic Bags are A-OK!”

Sep 29, 2011Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Plastics, Tips

It’s like the plot for an action-filled Hollywood movie: the evil mastermind tries to gain power and control by indoctrinating the unsuspecting civilians. In this case, the villain is the American Chemistry Council, the chemical industry’s trade group. And the...

Moneyball: Hollywood (and Artificial Turf) Comes to Oakland

Sep 20, 2011Charles MargulisChildren's Health, General Insights

Last night the stars were out at Oakland’s historic Paramount Theater for the premier of Moneyball, the Brad Pitt vehicle (from the fabulous Michael Lewis book of the same name) about Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane. The stars and guests were welcomed to...