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New Yorkers: Support the Fracking Moratorium!

Mar 12, 2013Ali Geering-KlineEnergy, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations, Tips

Last week, New York Assembly Democrats approved a two-year fracking moratorium. They believe, like us, that the health effects of hydrofracking should be studied before New York Governor Andrew Cuomo can approve moving forward with fracking in the state. Now,...

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...

In New York, the 11th Hour in the Fight Against Fracking

Feb 12, 2013Ansje MillerEnergy, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

It is an anxious and exciting time here in New York. We are in what health advocates are calling the 11th hour in determining the fate of New York and whether natural gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking) will take place in the state. New York State Governor Andrew...

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...

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...

Protect strawberries from an Already Banned (But Still Used!) Pesticide – Tell Hillary Clinton to Act Before She Steps Down

Jan 14, 2013Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice, Food, Laws & Regulations, Tips

Right now, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), on behalf of strawberry agribusiness corporations, are asking Secretary of State Clinton and EPA Administrator Jackson to get more methyl bromide for California. Why? Because instead of coming up...

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...

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,...

Is Toxic the New Black?

Dec 12, 2012Maggie YoungChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action, Tips

The fashion industry seems to think that toxic is the shade of the season, with new evidence of toxic clothes to match toxic purses and toxic jewelry. Greenpeace has recently released a report that uncovers the use of a cocktail of toxic chemicals in clothing by 20...