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Eco-Tip of the Week: May is Water Awareness Month

May 7, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

Now that summer’s around the corner, swimming pools, sprinklers, trips to the beach or lake, water parks, and other wet ways to cool off are all starting to come to mind. During the warm spring and summer months, we tend to not only do more water-related activities;...

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,...

Take Action: Stand Up for Good Jobs and Clean Air!

May 4, 2010Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice

Though I really do crave it, that new flat-screen TV would be a guilty pleasure. I mean I’ve got a working set, and the new one would doubtlessly be made in Asia, brought here on a ship, loaded onto an 18-wheel diesel truck, carried to a major retailer’s regional...

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...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Mother’s Day Organic Flowers

Apr 30, 2010Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

April showers bring May flowers, as the saying goes. May also brings one of those important holidays for which we need to buy flowers for a loved one: Mother’s Day. Over the next week, millions of people will be buying and ordering flowers from local shops or...

Samsung’s Dirty Little Secret

Apr 27, 2010Sean SullivanEnvironmental Justice

Look around your house, and no doubt you will find a Samsung product. Televisions, radios, cell phones, Samsung went from the little company that could to the conglomerate that went everywhere. As we approach Worker’s Memorial Day and May Day we wish we could tell...

Cancer Cluster Found at Samsung

Apr 26, 2010Charlie PizarroChildren's Health, Environmental Justice

A cancer cluster has been discovered among factory workers at Samsung. Click here to sign a petition demanding the company protect its workers.

Environmental Tip of the Week: Keeping Toxics out of your Yard

Apr 23, 2010Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

So, you might have heard the old nursery rhyme: Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? It goes on to say something about cockle shells and other weird plant names. But that first line asks a pretty good question. How does your garden grow? Do you...

Take Action to Protect Kids from Toxic Jewelry

Apr 22, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Legal Action

Urge your Senator to support SB 929 to ban cadmium in jewelry.

For Corporate Polluters’ Front Groups, Every Day is Defraud the Earth Day

Apr 22, 2010Charles MargulisChemical Industry, Children's Health, Flame Retardants

If you heard of a great, health-protective advocacy group called Citizens for Fire Safety (CFFS), you might want to learn more before joining their efforts to protect children from fire hazards. So it might really annoy, disappoint, even enrage you to learn that they...