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A Note from the You May Now Rest Easily Department

Nov 15, 2010Charlie PizarroLaws & Regulations

US Congress member John Shimkus (R – IL) is now pursuing the chair of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. But that’s just politics and energy and the kind boring stuff that flashes by on C-SPAN as I dance between Fox News and MTV. Who...

Californians Are Getting Greenwashed This Election!

Oct 29, 2010Sean SullivanEnergy, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

It’s not like you haven’t been bombarded with the fact that there is an election going on in California since Valentine’s Day. And now that the time to vote is upon every American, our mailboxes are stuffed with political mailers and our doors are littered with...

Moving Past Pinkwashing: Breast Cancer Prevention Means Eliminating Toxics

Oct 22, 2010Ali Geering-KlineFood, Laws & Regulations, Tips

Today I bought a yogurt and opened it up to find a pink ribbon on the back of the lid next to the words “Breast Cancer Awareness Month”. For the last few years, these pink ribbons have been omnipresent in everything from media to food product packaging during the...

Why Vote No on Proposition 26 (The Polluters Protection Act)? If Polluters Don’t Pay, Taxpayers Will

Oct 20, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

Big oil, tobacco, and liquor companies claim Prop 26 is about “taxpayer protection”—when in fact it’s the opposite. This proposition is a thinly veiled attempt to redefine clean up fees as taxes, shifting the financial burden onto taxpayers. Since the industrial age...

FAQ: Working to End Lead Threats to Children

Oct 14, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action

Update: After thinking it over for a day, WalMart decides to pull products nationwide. Yesterday, CEH announced our findings of high lead levels in children’s products from Target and WalMart. After nearly fifteen years of eliminating health hazards to children and...

Congress Takes Aim on Fraudulent Electronic “Recyclers”

Oct 5, 2010Judy LevinEnvironmental Justice, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

Landmark legislation was introduced in Congress last week to stop U.S. companies posing as electronic “recyclers” from dumping hazardous e-waste materials from the United States in developing countries. Today, most e-waste – as much as 50-80% of the e-waste that...

Prop 23 is…DIRTY

Oct 1, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

Ipad commercial? Nope. Watch it to find out just how harmful Proposition 23 really is.

We Did It! The Cadmium Ban Passes in CA

Sep 28, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations

Thousands of CEH members around the California came together last month and told the state Assembly that kids’ jewelry should never be toxic. Our work forced the jewelry industry to eliminate lead threats, but some jewelry makers responded by substituting...

Lead in Your Shopping Bag?

Sep 23, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations, Tips

Wegmans, a major grocery store chain in New York and nearby states recently announced that some reusable shopping bags that have been sold in its stores contain lead. Independent testing by the Empire State Consumer Project showed that these bags contain more lead...

Tell the Governor: Reduce Pesticide Use, for School Children and Workers’ Health!

Sep 21, 2010Caroline CoxFood, Laws & Regulations

Pesticide use is so prevalent in our country that these intentional poisons are nearly everywhere. Don’t want to take my word for it? There’s no need to: cautious, understated, and matter-of-fact reports from conservative government agencies verify that pesticides...