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Lead in Your Shopping Bag?

Sep 23, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations, Tips

Wegmans, a major grocery store chain in New York and nearby states recently announced that some reusable shopping bags that have been sold in its stores contain lead. Independent testing by the Empire State Consumer Project showed that these bags contain more lead...

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...

The Plastic Bottle Dilemma

Sep 17, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Plastics, Tips, Uncategorized

We’ve all done it before–you finish drinking that soda or eating that to-go lunch and you’re in a rush, with no recycling bin in sight–so what do you do with that plastic bottle or container? “Ah, how bad could it be to throw this one...

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...

Victory for California: Los Angeles Rules in Favor of the Clean Truck Program

Sep 2, 2010Christine CorderoEnvironmental Justice

It’s about time. In a tremendous legal victory for clean air and workers’ rights, a CA district judge has ruled in favor of the Los Angeles Clean Truck program. The Clean Truck program allows the Port of Los Angeles to enforce all provisions of one of the most...

A Global Graveyard for Toxic Electronics

Aug 17, 2010Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice

Do you know what happens to your computer once you throw it out? Old electronics are dumped in “digital graveyards” in countries around the world, like China and Ghana, where all of their toxic insides are purged out into massive waste yards, polluting the land and...

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...

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...