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How Are You Enjoying the Best Week of the Year?

Mar 18, 2010Charlie PizarroChildren's Health, General Insights, Uncategorized

It’s springtime. The days are getting longer. Giants’ pitchers are gearing up to hang o-fers up and down the Dodgers’ overrated lineup. And better than all these indisputable truths is the fact that daylight saving time has begun. So, in search of tips to...

Your Captain Has Illuminated the “Profligate Waste” Sign – Please Throw Something Away

Mar 15, 2010Charlie PizarroGeneral Insights, Uncategorized

By the time the attendant came by to see to my in-flight comfort, I’d already completed an urgent cost-benefit analysis. If I really wanted my friends at SouthJetUniBlueWest Airlines to supply me with the three Jack Danielses that reliably equip me to spend time in a...

The Toxies – An Award Show for Bad Actor Chemicals

Mar 1, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Uncategorized

Everyone knows about the Oscars, but have you heard about The Toxies? This Wednesday, March 3 at 11 am, the first-ever red carpet awards ceremony for “Bad Actor” chemicals will take place at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Bad Actor chemicals include some of the...

Discarded but not Degraded: What Will the Aliens Think When They Find Our Plastic Crap?

Feb 24, 2010Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice, General Insights, Plastics, Uncategorized

Once-thriving ecosystems around the globe are now choking to death on our discarded plastic relics. It’s a problem that’s on the minds of Generation Green members, so we’ve begun to share a few tips to help you reduce the amount of plastic that the global polymer...

What to do About Cadmium in Jewelry: Q&A

Feb 2, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Legal Action, Tips, Uncategorized

Q: What did you find? A: We purchased jewelry from four leading retailers, Saks, Justice, Catherines and Aeropostale, and found significant levels of cadmium. A child’s necklace from Justice and a pink ribbon “breast cancer awareness” women’s bracelet from Catherines...

CEH in the News on Cadmium in Jewelry

Jan 15, 2010Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, General Insights, Legal Action

Earlier this week, the Associated Press released a report in which they exposed high levels of cadmium in jewelry sold at major retail stores. Please read our post, “This Months’ Flavor for Toxic Jewelry: Cadmi-yumm,” for the latest on the issue. CEH...

Two Plus Two May Once Again Equal Four, Radical Environmentalists Hope

Dec 15, 2009Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

It’s no secret: for eight relentless years the Bush/Exxon/Mobil Administration opposed the Center for Environmental Health’s strong public health positions. Lead in children’s products? No problem, they said. Reckless support for all things petroleum? ...

Wal-Mart and Target: Free Lead Ain’t As Cheap As It Used to Be

Nov 18, 2009Charlie PizarroChildren's Health, General Insights, Legal Action

As the quotable catcher used to say: It’s like déjà vu all over again. Lead is still in kids’ products, and Wal-Mart and Target are still peddling the dirty goods. And if the past continues to do the Yogi Berra, these retail giants will tell you that lead isn’t a...

GMO Halloween Candy: A Pesticide-Laden Horror

Oct 15, 2009Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Food, General Insights

Tell Hershey’s and Mars to keep our kids safe and to end their use of genetically-modified (GMO) sugar today! Sugar from genetailly modified (GMO) beets is now in widespread use, despite worldwide scientific concern about the potential health and environmental...

Nanotechnology Makes Tiny Particles, Big Health Problems

Aug 24, 2009Charlie PizarroGeneral Insights, Uncategorized

Nanotechnology? Is that what Mork from Ork says when he picks up his cellphone? Actually, nanotechnology is the industry where scientists take different substances and isolate their smallest possible particles. And by “small,” we’re talking about sizes once thought...