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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...

Eco-Tip of the Week: 3 Things To Avoid In Personal Care Products

Jun 9, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

For many of us, comforting sensations come to mind when we think about our personal care products and how they make us feel, smell, and look.  But what really gives these products the characteristics we associate with that clean, shower-fresh feeling? Alluring...

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...

Californians: Stop Pesticide Secrets

Mar 30, 2010Charlie PizarroUncategorized

Urge your California Senator and Assemblymember to stop allowing secret, sometimes toxic ingredients in pesticides. We can’t let this opportunity slip by.  

Californians: Take Action to Stop Pesticide Secrets

Mar 30, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Food, Uncategorized

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last December that it wanted to consider greater disclosure of the so-called inert ingredients in pesticides, it may not have known how many people cared the issue. (“Inert” ingredients in pesticides are the...

We’re not Cockroaches, EPA. Tell Us What’s in that Toxic Spray!

Feb 16, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations

Take a close look at the fine print on a can of Raid, a bottle of Cutters, a jug of RoundUp, or virtually any pesticide on the market today, and you’ll see these words:  “Inert ingredients.” Inert ingredients are the pesticide industry’s best-kept secret. The Bad News...

Tell EPA: No Secret Ingredients in Pesticides

Jan 25, 2010Center for Environmental HealthChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations

Inert ingredients are the thousands of chemicals that the pesticide industry is allowed to keep secret. Some of these chemicals are anything but inert: they can cause cancer, genetic damage, reproductive harm, and other serious health problems. EPA recently announced...
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