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Michael Green Talks Flame Retardants on “On the Green Front”

Mar 26, 2013Chelsea BurroughsChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action

CEH Executive Director Michael Green was recently a guest on the radio talk show “On the Green Front” hosted by eco-pioneer Betsy Rosenberg. In the interview, Michael discusses the “toxic shell game”–in which the chemical industry conducts unplanned science...

Hormones Out of Whack: The Global Threat From Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

Mar 13, 2013Michael GreenChildren's Health, Food, Tips

Crossposted from Huffington Post In Ruth Ozeki’s heartbreakingly funny novel My Year of Meats, narrator Jane Takagi-Little reflects on her journey through fertility challenges and miscarriage while producing a documentary series for Japanese television on behalf...

Moving to Safety First, for Our Children’s Health

Mar 1, 2013Michael GreenChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Flame Retardants, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action

Crossposted from Huffington Post When is a flame retardant not a flame retardant? When it is no more effective in retarding flames than, well, nothing. Since fire safety experts and government studies say that chemical flame retardants as they are used in many...

CEH Report on Flame Retardants in Nap Mats Prompts Call for EPA Study

Feb 22, 2013Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action, Tips

Great news: CEH’s report on toxic flame retardants in nap mats has spurred Senator Frank Lautenberg (NJ) and 22 other Senators to call for an EPA study into flame retardant chemical dangers. Please show your support of the Senators’ call for an EPA study by...

With Liberty and Healthy Environments for All

Feb 5, 2013Michael GreenChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Most Americans are taught in grade school about the Declaration of Independence and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But even those elitist Americans with a college education don’t learn anything about the concept of a human right to a...

No More Flame Retardant Chemicals in Gatorade – But How Healthy Is the Replacement?

Jan 31, 2013Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Food, Tips

In response to customer pressure, PepsiCo has announced they will remove a controversial chemical that is added to orange Gatorade. As we’ve written about before, brominated vegetable oils (BVOs) are patented flame retardant chemicals that are also used (for another...

CEH In New York: Protecting the Public from Fracking Chemicals

Jan 14, 2013Ansje MillerChildren's Health, Energy, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

Last week, I presented testimony to a New York State Assembly Committee hearing on the state’s proposed new rules for fracking – rules that we consider woefully inadequate to protect New Yorkers from the real health and environmental risks from fracking...

Keep our water safe from toxic fracking chemicals

Jan 8, 2013Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Energy, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

The Cuomo Administration has released draft rules to allow fracking for natural gas – a technology that has yet to be proven safe and puts our children and families at risk from water contamination, air pollution, and other toxic health threats. And we have just 3...

Sharing a Toxic-Free Gift Guide with my loved ones

Dec 20, 2012Evelyn MinaiseChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Food, Tips

While many are struggling to fill stockings on time and get their houses to optimum holiday glow, the Center for Environmental Health is working on making sure everyone has the safest, toxic-free holiday they can. CEH recently released “Buying Naughty or Nice: A...

Eco-Friendly Dentistry, Q & A with Dr. Namrata Patel

Dec 18, 2012Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations, Personal Stories

Dr. Namrata (Nammy) Patel is a leader in a movement to bring environmental sanity and wellbeing into the dental world. Her mission is to make going to the dentist as relaxing as a day at the spa. At her Green Dentistry office in San Francisco’s Union Square,...