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Tell the Governor: Reduce Pesticide Use, for School Children and Workers’ Health!

Sep 21, 2010Caroline CoxFood, Laws & Regulations

Pesticide use is so prevalent in our country that these intentional poisons are nearly everywhere. Don’t want to take my word for it? There’s no need to: cautious, understated, and matter-of-fact reports from conservative government agencies verify that pesticides...

CEH Stands Up to Ban Cadmium

Sep 20, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations

Last week, the Center for Environmental Health and State Senator Fran Pavley led supporters in Sacramento, urging Governor Schwarzenegger to sign the bill to ban the toxic metal cadmium, from children’s jewelry. This bill would cap cadmium use at 300 parts per...

Our Voices, Our Power: Communities United to Stop Dirty Energy

Sep 16, 2010Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice

This year, two Texas oil companies are leading a group of out-of-state polluters, pushing Proposition 23 – a deceptive ballot measure that would repeal California’s landmark climate change law. What’s it all about? Four years ago, California passed the groundbreaking...

Eco-Tip: Why You Shouldn’t Use RoundUp (or Trust Its Labels)

Aug 18, 2010Caroline CoxFood, Tips

At the risk of sounding like the geek that I really am, I’ll make this confession: I’ve been reading the fine print on the back (and front) of Roundup bottles for a couple of decades. The Roundup I’m talking about here is not cowboys chasing down...

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...

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,...

Eco-Tip of the Week: How to Buy Safer Handbags

Jun 4, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

Lead in handbags. Cadmium in jewelry. These days, news about toxic heavy metal discoveries in fashion accessories seems to be popping up left and right. Just this week CEH discovered three items at Wal-Mart with very high levels of lead, including a Miley...

Listen to CEH Executive Director Michael Green on Your Call, KALW Radio

May 27, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action

“The reason that the government has focused so much on cure and so little on prevention is because there’s a buck to be made”, Michael Green said on today’s Your Call, KALW Radio program. The topic of today’s Your Call looks at the connections between the parallel...

Field of Nightmares: Keep Cancer-Causing Pesticide Out of California’s Strawberry Fields

May 25, 2010Caroline CoxFood

More than 20 years ago, my sister died of cancer when she was a young mother of two kids under eight. I still live with that pain, and I know that I’m not alone –all of you also have the same kind of stories about this common disease. With cancer so...

CEH Ending Hidden Lead Hazards in Purses

Jan 25, 2010Ryan BerghoffChildren's Health, Legal Action

Last April, CEH announced finding high levels of lead in dozens of purses and handbags sold at several major retailers, including Target, Macy’s, WalMart and many others. Last week, a landmark legal agreement with four major companies established, for the first time,...