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Apr 9, 2018Zack KaldveerChemical Industry, Children's Health, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations
How could California, the model state when it comes to tough environmental regulations, have failed to assess lead-contamination dangers at a battery-recycling facility? Cleanup of Exide’s Vernon plant. California Department of Toxic Substances Control By Joe...
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Mar 22, 2018Zack KaldveerChemical Industry, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action
By Joe Rubin Battery recycling is considered one of the most potentially hazardous industries. Yet Vernon’s Exide workers were routinely being poisoned with nearly nonexistent intervention by Cal/OSHA. How could California, the model state when it comes to tough...
Oct 17, 2017Ruben DiazChemical Industry, Food, Laws & Regulations
By Alexander Nazaryan ON 10/17/17 AT 1:41 PM “If we want to defeat the globalists,” says Alex Jones in an Infowars video published last year, “we have to understand they’re using medical tyranny against us. But to get us into that globalist-controlled system, they...
Mar 3, 2016Charles MargulisUncategorized
Oakland, CA-The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has initiated legal action against the car seat maker Orbit Baby, demanding that the company recall its car seats made with the toxic flame retardant chemical chlorinated Tris (Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate...
Dec 24, 2015Aimee DewingUncategorized
Testing by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has found that a San Francisco 49ers-branded Christmas tree ornament sold at Kmart contains high levels of lead, at nearly 40 times the legal limit for lead in a child’s product. Lead is a stunningly toxic chemical...
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...
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Feb 12, 2015Ruben DiazUncategorized
02/12/2015 FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A health non-profit has released a map showing neighborhoods around 23 California airports, where aviation fuel creates lead air pollution dangers. It includes Fresno-Yosemite International Airport. The map is provided by The...
Feb 11, 2015Ruben DiazChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Legal Action
Neighborhoods near 23 airports affected by lead-containing aviation fuel Oakland, CA-The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has created an online map showing the neighborhoods around 23 California airports where aviation fuel creates lead air pollution dangers. In...
Feb 5, 2015Charles MargulisUncategorized
Oakland, CA-The nonprofit health watchdog Center for Environmental Health (CEH) today is initiating legal action against 19 companies that sell e-cigarettes and/or e-liquids without consumer warnings, as is required under California law. E-cigarettes are marketed as a...
Dec 17, 2014Ruben DiazUncategorized
By: Rebecca Kessler December 17, 2014 The United States phased out the use of leaded gasoline for automobiles in 1996, but many small aircraft continue to run on it. That’s worrying to some public health experts, because lead is a potent neurotoxicant, and leaded...
