Substituting Styrofoam: 5 More States Ban Polystyrene as Food Packaging
We are ramping up our work to defend our right to clean air, clean water, safer products, and a healthy planet.
CEH Vows to Hold the Trump Administration Accountable, Fight for Public Health and Safe Communities
We are ramping up our work to defend our right to clean air, clean water, safer products, and a healthy planet.
Listen: Kizzy Charles-Guzman on People Over Plastic Podcast
CEH’s CEO Kizzy Charles-Guzman was featured on the season finale of the People Over Plastic podcast during NYC’s Climate Week.
7 Tips to Minimize Your Exposure to Toxics This Halloween
Have you heard that the Center for Environmental Health found lead, cadmium, and BPA in costumes from Halloween Express and Spirit Halloween?
CEH Supports the Safe School Meals Act
The bill would place limits on heavy metals, ban certain pesticide residues, trigger the safety reassessment of food additives including artificial food dyes that have been linked with health harms, and ban the use of PFAS, phthalates, and bisphenols in school meal food packaging.
CEH Responds to Biden-Harris Administration’s New Strategy to Tackle Plastic Pollution
The Center for Environmental Health praises the Biden-Harris Administration for recognizing the full scope of the plastic pollution crisis, including the issue of microplastics and nanoplastics, as well as acknowledging the scale of the response that is needed.
How Eco-Friendly Purchasing Policies Can Protect Health and the Environment
Pervasive in our homes, workplaces, environments, food, and bodies, toxic chemicals can cause lasting health impacts because of how they are manufactured, used, and disposed. CityHealth, an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, annually...
The Adventures of La Tóxica
The center for environmental health is proud to have collaborated with Environmental Health Coalition to produce the following short form videos. These videos follow La Tóxica and her community along their journey learning about Prop 65 and other CA right-to-know laws. We are thrilled EHC made these videos to reach a wider, Spanish-speaking audience to help make this vital information more accessible.
Invisible Pollution: The urgent need for federal policy on ‘forever’ chemicals
Across the United States, we celebrated an early “Earth Day” win when the federal government announced last week a requirement for municipal water systems to remove six synthetic toxic chemicals from the tap water of hundreds of millions of people.
CEH Responds to U.S. EPA Designating Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ as Hazardous Substances
The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) applauds the U.S. EPA for designating PFOA and PFOS, two of the most studied Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).