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Oil Cleanup? Dispersing the Myths

Jun 21, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Energy, General Insights, Uncategorized

There has been much recent attention to BP’s use of so-called dispersants in the Gulf oil disaster. Dispersants are chemicals intended to break up the spilled oil, presumably to speed degradation and thus lessen some of the havoc the oil would otherwise wreak. But...

CEH Wins the SF Business Times’ Green Business Award

Jun 14, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Legal Action, Uncategorized

“In its mission to create a safer environment, the Center for Environmental Health uses both carrots and sticks”, Michele Chandler wrote in last week’s San Francisco Business Times. This year, CEH is proud to join the prestigious list of the San Francisco Business...

From Oakland to DC for Clean Air & Good Jobs!

May 19, 2010Christine CorderoEnvironmental Justice, Uncategorized

As we’ve blogged before, CEH as part of our Safe Air, Water and Food campaign is part of the Green Blue Alliance fighting to restore stability to our Ports system and improve air quality in low income communities. With hope that we have an ally in the White House, and...

Find Us on Oprah

May 5, 2010Sean SullivanChildren's Health, General Insights, Uncategorized

“Lead? In Purses?” Diane Sawyer asked, somewhat outraged, on ABC News earlier this year (as you can see from the clip up above) when they profiled the findings of CEH’s crack research team. Well now Oprah has sounded the alarm. More specifically,...

Energy Star Ratings, For More Efficient Greenwashing

May 3, 2010Charles MargulisEnergy, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has exposed fatal flaws in the government’s Energy Star ratings program. Jointly managed by the EPA and Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Star ratings since 1993 have been granted to products presumably based on...

Can Preventing Pollution Also Prevent Diabetes?

Apr 19, 2010Sarah HowardChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Uncategorized

(Guest blogger Sarah Howard is a CEH supporter and an environmental health advocate.) Diabetes is the quintessential “lifestyle” disease – or is it? There is growing scientific evidence that exposure to environmental contaminants may contribute to the development of...

Come See a Just and Sustainable Way to Twist, Turn on, and Flush

Apr 15, 2010Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice, General Insights, Uncategorized

SF Bay Area folks: do yourself a favor and come to the opening of Literacy for Environmental Justice’s Living Classroom on People’s Earth Day, Sunday, April 18, 2010.) _______________________________________ Water. Energy. Waste treatment. I’m going to make a case...

The Petroleum Industry’s Legislators Want Oil, Not Olive Branches

Apr 5, 2010Charlie PizarroEnergy, General Insights, Uncategorized

Wouldn’t you know it? One day I agree to stop tarnishing this exalted space with four-letter words, and the next day the president goes and vows to open enormous stretches of protected coastline to oil drilling. Here’s the G-rated version of my reaction....

Californians: Stop Pesticide Secrets

Mar 30, 2010Charlie PizarroUncategorized

Urge your California Senator and Assemblymember to stop allowing secret, sometimes toxic ingredients in pesticides. We can’t let this opportunity slip by.

Californians: Take Action to Stop Pesticide Secrets

Mar 30, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Food, Uncategorized

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last December that it wanted to consider greater disclosure of the so-called inert ingredients in pesticides, it may not have known how many people cared the issue. (“Inert” ingredients in pesticides are the...