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There’s What in My Shampoo? Watch the Story of Cosmetics Video!

Jul 21, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

For many of us, comforting sensations come to mind when we think about our personal care products and how they make us feel, smell, and look. But do you ever wonder what all those complicated ingredients listed on the back of your favorite shampoo or perfume actually...

Playing Ball Just Got a Little Safer

Jul 16, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Legal Action

Thanks to research and legal action by the Center for Environmental Health, millions of children who play on fields of artificial turf will no longer be exposed to potentially hazardous levels of lead. A 2008 CEH expose showing high levels of lead in many varieties of...

CEH Action Prompts Nationwide Jewelry Recall

Jul 13, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Legal Action

Following an investigation and legal action earlier this year by the Center for Environmental Health, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Tween Brands today announced a recall of 19 styles of children’s metal necklaces, bracelets and earrings due to high...

Confessions of a Young Man’s Love For Jewelry… Compliance Testing

Jul 12, 2010Aimee DewingChildren's Health, General Insights, Personal Stories

If you were to search for men who admit to frequenting Claire’s Boutique – where your teenage daughters shop for clothes, jewelry, and other fashion accessories with short shelf lives – I am quite certain that you would spend a long time looking. I visit this store...

The verdict is in: Healthy kids in CA are worth more than $5 million from chemical industry lobbyists!

Jul 1, 2010Christina MedinaChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations

Yesterday we wrote about the California BPA bill and all the attempts chemical lobbyists made to kill it. But after spending $5 million, they still couldn’t defeat it! Today, the California assembly voted to ban Bisphenol A (BPA) from infant food packaging,...

Are Californians Dumber than Folks in Connecticut?

Jun 30, 2010Ryan BerghoffChildren's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations

We don’t think so. But the chemical industry does. In Connecticut, industry lobbyists thought that they could use fear tactics against a proposed state ban on the toxic plastic ingredient Bisphenol-A (BPA). But fear mongering lost, and the state adopted a ban,...

CEH’s Christine Cordero discusses Clean Air and Good Jobs on SF Bay Area’s Green 960

Jun 25, 2010Sean SullivanChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

Christine Cordero, CEH’s Coordinator of Environmental Health and Justice, has previously written about her advocacy on behalf of Clean Air and Good Jobs on our blog. Last week, Christine was invited to discuss her important work, on “YourSuperNatural...

Oil Cleanup? Dispersing the Myths

Jun 21, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Energy, General Insights, Uncategorized

There has been much recent attention to BP’s use of so-called dispersants in the Gulf oil disaster. Dispersants are chemicals intended to break up the spilled oil, presumably to speed degradation and thus lessen some of the havoc the oil would otherwise wreak. But...

CEH Wins the SF Business Times’ Green Business Award

Jun 14, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Legal Action, Uncategorized

“In its mission to create a safer environment, the Center for Environmental Health uses both carrots and sticks”, Michele Chandler wrote in last week’s San Francisco Business Times. This year, CEH is proud to join the prestigious list of the San Francisco Business...

Eco-Tip of the Week: 3 Things To Avoid In Personal Care Products

Jun 9, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

For many of us, comforting sensations come to mind when we think about our personal care products and how they make us feel, smell, and look. But what really gives these products the characteristics we associate with that clean, shower-fresh feeling? Alluring...