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Seven Ways CEH Fought Our Way Through the First Trump Administration

Jan 17, 2025Joanna LeeAir, Chemical Industry, Children's Health, Children's Products, Energy, Environmental Justice, Fashion Products, Flame Retardants, flooring & carpeting, Food, Food Products, Home Products, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action, PFAS, Plastics, Products, Resistance

Let’s look back at seven strategies we used during the first Trump administration that will inform our work to protect our air, water, soil, and food during this one.

Center for Environmental Health Cracks Down on Mint-Flavored Products with Pulegone

Jan 17, 2025Joanna LeeChemical Industry, Children's Health, Children's Products, Food, Food Products, Legal Action

Today, the nonprofit watchdog CEH served Ghirardelli and Trader Joe’s with notices of violation over the pulegone found in Ghirardelli Mint Squares and Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Mint Creams.

Substituting Styrofoam: 5 More States Ban Polystyrene as Food Packaging

Nov 18, 2024Joanna LeeEnvironmental Justice, Uncategorized

We are ramping up our work to defend our right to clean air, clean water, safer products, and a healthy planet.

CEH’s Award-Winning Success in Kicking Toxic Chemicals Out of Furniture

May 18, 2017Center for Environmental HealthFlame Retardants

Earlier this month, CEH was awarded the “Market Transformation” Award by by the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) for our work to move the furniture industry towards healthier, less toxic products. CEH’s work educating and assisting major corporations...

Disney: Another Toxic Children’s Product!

Mar 21, 2017Caroline CoxUncategorized

Over the years, CEH has found too many safety problems in Disney products. Our work exposed high levels of lead in Disney-branded baby bibs, lunchboxes, jewelry and several other products. But now we’ve found a new danger in a Disney product – this time, in a product...

Car Seats’ Hidden Hazard

Dec 13, 2016Isa GaillardFlame Retardants

Environmental Justice Fellow, Center for Environmental Health In the summer of 2017, my sister will give birth to her first child. She will be the first of our five siblings to become a parent. My excitement to become an uncle grows daily; I know that when the baby is...

Cultivating a New Generation of Environmental Justice Leaders

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...

A Once-in-a-Century Pesticide (that Probably Causes Cancer)

Mar 23, 2015Caroline CoxChemical Industry, Food, Laws & Regulations

On Friday, a World Health Organization panel of scientists from 11 countries announced their decision to list glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, as a probable human carcinogen. In particular the panel noted the links between glyphosate...

The Good and Bad News About BPA

Jan 15, 2015Michael GreenChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations, Plastics

The toxic plastics chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has recently been in the news again. For CEH, BPA exemplifies many of the more problematic aspects of our country’s approach to harmful chemicals in everyday products, and a look at the history and science around BPA is...

Safe Toys Shouldn’t Be a Holiday Miracle

Dec 8, 2014Ansje MillerChildren's Health

Children love Curious George. Looking at this Curious George doll, you can just imagine a little kid playing with him, hugging him tightly, even kissing his face. So it would be shocking to learn that the face of this Curious George doll, bought and tested by CEH in...