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The New Methane Regulations: Adequate or Short-sighted?

May 31, 2016Ellen WebbChemical Industry, Children's Health, Fracking, Uncategorized

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency broke precedent Thursday, May 12th when it announced the country’s first ever methane emission standards for the oil and gas industry. The agency proudly called it a further effort on the part of the Obama Administration...

Fracking Chemicals: Respiratory Health Risks to Infants and Children

May 12, 2016Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

by Ellen Webb Two years ago, a midwife from Vernal, Utah, made headlines by suggesting a link between infant mortality and air pollution from fracking. After serving as the town’s midwife for 19 years, she’d delivered a baby that died in stillbirth. This was no...

VIDEO: a firefighter battles cancer

Dec 23, 2015Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

A note to CEH from firefighter Dan Dunnigan Dear Michael Green, Thank you for all your hard work! You are so strong and inspiring, as is your team! The video is so well done. Please let me know how I can be of service in 2016! Thanks again- and talk soon, Dan...

Cultivating a New Generation of Environmental Justice Leaders

Dec 21, 2015Center for Environmental HealthEnvironmental Justice

by Alvaro Palacios Casanova I was a gang-member from a low-income Southern California neighborhood when I had a wake-up call I’ll never forget. A rock hurtling through a car windshield crushed my nose, broke my jaw, cost me the use of my left eye and nearly ended up...

Choosing a Chemical Flame-Retardant Free Campus

Nov 4, 2015Joe Allen PhD and Heather Henriksen MPAFlame Retardants

By Heather Henriksen, Director, Harvard Office for Sustainability and Joe Allen, Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard Center for Health and the...

Are the New York Yankees selling illegal soap?

Apr 6, 2015Aimee DewingUncategorized

On Opening Day, the stink of another scandal is wafting over America’s ballparks OAKLAND, CA – Following a Spring Training where A-Rod’s past steroid use made more headlines than the New York Yankees’ dim prospects this coming season, the nonprofit Center for...

A Once-in-a-Century Pesticide (that Probably Causes Cancer)

Mar 23, 2015Caroline CoxChemical Industry, Food, Laws & Regulations

On Friday, a World Health Organization panel of scientists from 11 countries announced their decision to list glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, as a probable human carcinogen. In particular the panel noted the links between glyphosate...

CEH Legal Action: Be Safe When You Vape

Feb 6, 2015Charles MargulisLegal Action

CEH has been receiving questions about our recent legal action against companies that make e-cigarettes and vaping products. We welcome an open exchange on the topic. Below are some responses to the more frequently asked questions. Q: Do you want everyone to stop...

The Good and Bad News About BPA

Jan 15, 2015Michael GreenChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations, Plastics

The toxic plastics chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has recently been in the news again. For CEH, BPA exemplifies many of the more problematic aspects of our country’s approach to harmful chemicals in everyday products, and a look at the history and science around BPA is...

My Story with the Chemical Industry

Jan 12, 2015Tenya SteeleChemical Industry, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

I worked in an environment that was hazardous to my health for many years. At first I didn’t realize it. But as time passed, I became aware that many of the on-site substances were known to cause cancer in some groups of workers as well as laboratory animals. Stuff...