Children's Health Archives - Page 4 of 30 - Center for Environmental Health

Understanding the Toxic Chemical Gap

Jun 23, 2017Center for Environmental HealthChemical Industry, Children's Health, Environmental Justice

By Michael Dorsey, a co-founding Director of CEH and a featured speaker at Spotlight Health. Why was the Center for Environmental Health founded? What is the CEH working on now? At the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), we work every day to protect your children...

Act Now To Stop Trump’s EPA Pick!

Jun 7, 2017Center for Environmental HealthChemical Industry, Children's Health, Laws & Regulations, Personal Stories

If you love asbestos, you’ll love Nancy Beck. She’s Trump’s pick to lead chemical safety policy at the EPA. Nancy Beck’s previous job was defending the safety of chemicals for companies like Monsanto, Chevron, ExxonMobil and companies that make asbestos and other...

Fulfilling the EPA’s Mission, In Spite of Pruitt

Feb 23, 2017Ansje MillerChemical Industry, Children's Health, Environmental Justice, Flame Retardants, Food, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Last week, the Senate approved Donald Trump’s pick of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the new chief Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in a 52-46 vote, mostly along party lines. In the end, Senator Susan Collins from Maine was the only...

CEH Standing for Children’s Health at EPA

Feb 21, 2017Caroline CoxChildren's Health

With the Trump administration aiming at massive cuts to environmental regulations, and with Scott Pruitt confirmed as the new Chief Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is clear that we cannot count on federal protections from harmful...

Women’s March 2017

Jan 18, 2017Michelle EndoChemical Industry, Children's Health, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

As a child of the 1990s, I was raised on the pink-and-glitter ‘girl power’ of supposed post-feminism ideals. I grew up in a household where both my parents worked, looking up to a mom who could do it all and instilled in me the confidence that I could do the same....

Baby-Poisoning Rat Pesticide Company Now Killing Babies with New Product

Sep 23, 2016Charles MargulisChemical Industry, Children's Health

If you think that’s a rejected headline from an especially twisted edition of The Onion, think again. In fact, this is exactly what’s happening with the massive British home products company Reckitt Benckiser (RB). You may have never heard of the company despite its...

West Oakland: Sick of Coal

Jun 23, 2016Alvaro Palacios CasanovaChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

by Alvaro Palacios Casanova West Oakland is a community that faces poverty and chronic disease. The community is disproportionately exposed to air and noise pollution with two freeways, a port, and rail running through it. It is also home to many organizations that...

The New Methane Regulations: Adequate or Short-sighted?

May 31, 2016Ellen WebbChemical Industry, Children's Health, Fracking, Uncategorized

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency broke precedent Thursday, May 12th when it announced the country’s first ever methane emission standards for the oil and gas industry. The agency proudly called it a further effort on the part of the Obama Administration...

The Good and Bad News About BPA

Jan 15, 2015Michael GreenChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations, Plastics

The toxic plastics chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has recently been in the news again. For CEH, BPA exemplifies many of the more problematic aspects of our country’s approach to harmful chemicals in everyday products, and a look at the history and science around BPA is...

Safe Toys Shouldn’t Be a Holiday Miracle

Dec 8, 2014Ansje MillerChildren's Health

Children love Curious George. Looking at this Curious George doll, you can just imagine a little kid playing with him, hugging him tightly, even kissing his face. So it would be shocking to learn that the face of this Curious George doll, bought and tested by CEH in...