Press Releases
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Receipts to Become Safer Thanks to the Center for Environmental Health’s Settlements with 163 of the Largest Companies in the United States
CEH’s settlements will protect consumers and workers from hormone disruption, recycling systems from contamination, and spur the creation of a new phenol-additive free receipt paper...
CEH Achieves 15 Legal Agreements with Companies who Failed to Report Billions of Pounds of Imported Chemicals
CEH achieved fifteen settlement agreements resulting in companies filing reports with the EPA for over 150 previously unreported chemicals, totaling more than 12 billion pounds...
California Advances Protein Safety Bill Targeting Heavy Metal Contamination
CEH supports a new bill that would protect consumers by requiring testing and disclosure of heavy metals in protein products sold in California...
CEH Takes Legal Action Against Amazon, Target, and Walmart for Selling Shampoos and Body Soaps Containing a Carcinogenic Chemical
Consumer Watchdog Group Finds Cocamide DEA in 38 Shampoos and Other Hygiene Products After Getting It Out of the Market Over a Decade Ago...
Lawsuit Filed to Reduce Smog in Denver, Southern California
Contact: Ryan Maher, rmaher@biologicaldiversity.org, Emily DiFrisco, emilyd@ceh.org Oakland, California – The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Environmental Health filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump...
CEH Reaches Legal Agreement with Wego Chemical Group, Remedying Its Violations of U.S. EPA Chemical Data Reporting
“We are pleased that Wego has worked efficiently with CEH and the EPA to correct their extensive violations of the TSCA reporting requirements,” said Bob...
‘Touching 1 Receipt for 10 Seconds’ Results in Exposure to the Chemical BPS Above the Safe Limit
CEH has taken legal action against 119 companies for high levels of Bisphenol S (BPS) in receipt paper...
‘Touching 1 Receipt for 10 Seconds’ Results in Exposure to the Chemical BPS Above the Safe Limit
Today CEH took legal action against 32 major retailers after investigations found high levels of BPS in receipt paper...
Lawsuit Challenges Delays by EPA in Cleaning Up Dangerous Smog Pollution in Phoenix, Yosemite National Park Area
Conservation and public-health groups sued EPA today for failure to take action to reduce smog pollution...
Trump Administration Moves to Redo Chemical Disasters Safety Protections, Putting Millions at Risk
Today, Trump’s EPA launched a rulemaking process after corporate lobbyists pressed the agency to dismantle safeguards against chemical disasters...
CEH Responds to Trump EPA Withdrawal of PFAS Effluent Limits
PFAS contamination is an urgent public health crisis, and people who live near PFAS-manufacturing facilities have lived with the health consequences of this pollution for...
New Testing Finds Illegal Levels of Bisphenol S in Receipt Paper
Nonprofit watchdog takes legal action against 8 companies and calls on retailers to improve their purchasing specifications...
CEH Sues Akrochem for Illegally Failing to Report Importing 1M Pounds of Chemicals
Today CEH filed a lawsuit against the company Akrochem Corporation for failing to report imports of more than 1 million pounds of chemicals to the...