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Confessions of a Young Man’s Love For Jewelry… Compliance Testing

Jul 12, 2010Aimee DewingChildren's Health, General Insights, Personal Stories

If you were to search for men who admit to frequenting Claire’s Boutique – where your teenage daughters shop for clothes, jewelry, and other fashion accessories with short shelf lives – I am quite certain that you would spend a long time looking. I visit this store...

Eco-Tip: Mosquitoes at Home and in the Wild

Jul 9, 2010Caroline CoxFood, Tips

My co-worker Ali just came back from a beautiful, inspiring, and mosquito-filled camping trip at Lake Tahoe. She watched her friends liberally dousing themselves with various common repellents, mostly containing that nasty-sounding chemical DEET, and decided she’d...

$96 for 50 hours of work?

Jul 8, 2010Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice

As part of CEH’s continuing work on improving air quality in low income communities, CEH shares Aditi Vaidya from East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)’s post on the fight to fix the broken port trucking system: You might have read...

Toxic Chemical Lobby: Exclusive Leaked Footage

Jul 7, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Today, our friends at Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families released their funny, animated video to garner public support for Congressional Action on the Toxic Substances Control Act. Though getting nasty, hazardous chemicals out of consumer products is a serious issue,...

The verdict is in: Healthy kids in CA are worth more than $5 million from chemical industry lobbyists!

Jul 1, 2010Christina MedinaChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations

Yesterday we wrote about the California BPA bill and all the attempts chemical lobbyists made to kill it. But after spending $5 million, they still couldn’t defeat it! Today, the California assembly voted to ban Bisphenol A (BPA) from infant food packaging,...

Hospitals Taking on Factory Animal Farms and the Meat-Protein Myth

Jul 1, 2010Charles MargulisFood

Last week, an NPR story highlighted menu changes at Bay Area hospitals that have the meat industry steaming. For decades nutritionists have warned about meaty diets high in saturated fats. More recently, medical experts have warned that the meat industry’s practices...

Are Californians Dumber than Folks in Connecticut?

Jun 30, 2010Ryan BerghoffChildren's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations

We don’t think so. But the chemical industry does. In Connecticut, industry lobbyists thought that they could use fear tactics against a proposed state ban on the toxic plastic ingredient Bisphenol-A (BPA). But fear mongering lost, and the state adopted a ban,...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Fourth of July Celebrations

Jun 30, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

In honor of summer’s biggest holiday, let’s all make some Independence Day declarations to help protect our health and the environment we share. Small lifestyle changes (like living less wastefully and avoiding toxic chemicals in everyday consumer...

The World of Green Chemistry

Jun 29, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

“Today nearly everything we touch—clothing, furniture, carpeting, cabinets, light bulbs, paper, toothpaste, baby teethers, iPhones, you name it—is synthetic,” Emily Laber-Warren states in her Scientific American article, “Green Chemistry: Scientists Devise New...

Something Stinky About Kellogg’s Serial Recalls

Jun 26, 2010Charles MargulisFood

On Friday, world’s largest cereal producer Kellogg’s announced a recall of 28 million boxes of sugary Apple Jacks, Fruit Loops, Corn Pops and Honey Smacks “due to an uncharacteristic off-flavor and smell coming from the liner in the package.” (see the full recall...