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Say No to Cancer-Causing Strawberry Pesticide!

Nov 30, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Food, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

You may remember last May when many of you (actually over 50,000 people around the state) helped us tell Governor Schwarzenegger that we didn’t want the dangerous pesticide methyl iodide approved for use in California. The primary use of this cancer-causing...

Holiday Shopping Guide for Finding Greener Electronics

Nov 23, 2010Judy LevinChildren's Health, Tips, Uncategorized

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching, many consumers have electronics at the top of their shopping lists. This holiday season, the average American is expected to spend over $230 (more than a third of their gift budget) on electronic products, up about...

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...

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.

Check Out Our Fall Newsletter!

Sep 30, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Uncategorized

CEH has had quite a list of health victories stacking up over the past several months. Since last spring, we’ve succeeded in knocking out some of the industry’s most dangerous toxics in consumer products. Just this week, California’s governor signed our legislation...

The Plastic Bottle Dilemma

Sep 17, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Plastics, Tips, Uncategorized

We’ve all done it before–you finish drinking that soda or eating that to-go lunch and you’re in a rush, with no recycling bin in sight–so what do you do with that plastic bottle or container? “Ah, how bad could it be to throw this one...

Majestic Plastic? Or Waste That Won’t Die…

Sep 10, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Plastics, Uncategorized

We’ve written about the Pacific Garbage Patch before. This huge mass (twice the size of Texas!) of discarded plastic shows that when it comes to throwing away plastic, there simply is no Away. All those forgotten plastic toys, cups, bottles, lighters and other...

When the Chemical Industry Attacks, Science Loses

Sep 3, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, General Insights, Uncategorized

In the last few weeks, five out of nine members of a scientific panel that advises the state of California on toxic chemical safety have been fired, following lobbying by the chemical industry and a conservative group, the Pacific Legal Foundation, which targets...

Hey Feds: Stop Dumping Your Toxic E-Waste Overseas!

Aug 14, 2010Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

As the country’s biggest purchaser of electronics, our federal government generates countless tons of highly toxic, electronic waste. At the beginning of 2011, the Obama administration made an exciting announcement; they were creating a task force to develop a policy...