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Eco-Tip: Safe Bounce House Bouncing!

Aug 13, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

Bounce houses should be fun, not toxic. CEH is working hard to get hazardous lead out of these much-loved play structures but it’s not going to happen overnight. So what do you do about that bounce house birthday party coming up that your kids are so excited about?...

Eco-Tip: 3 Ways to Take Your Household Cleaners from Child-Threat to Child-Safe

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

“Nearly 12,000 children under age 5 go to the emergency room each year because of injuries caused by household cleaning products, according to a study in today’s Pediatrics” -USA Today article, Spray Cleaners pose poison hazards to babies, toddlers ...

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...

Stop Wal-Mart’s Poison Purses!

Jun 3, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights

It’s unbelievable: Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is still profiting from products that expose you and your children to lead. It’s time for the store to hear from you. Take Action: Click here to Urge Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke to agree to eliminate the lead...

Where’s Wal-Mart? Still Selling Lead-Tainted Purses, That’s Where!

Jun 3, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Legal Action

Last year, the Center for Environmental Health found high levels of lead in hundreds of handbags, purses, wallets and other accessories purchased from dozens of leading retailers. This week, we announced our legal settlement with more than forty major companies,...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Baby-Safe Practices

May 27, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips

Last week we discussed safe practices to reduce exposures to toxic chemicals when pregnant. Of course, potentially harmful exposures don’t end when the baby is born. As you probably know, young children are most vulnerable to the hazards of certain toxic chemicals...

Eco-Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Toxic Exposures during Pregnancy

May 20, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips

A lot of our friends are pregnant right now and wondering what they can do to protect themselves and their new baby from toxic chemicals. More and more women realize that exposures to toxics are especially harmful when they are pregnant or nursing. Many of the toxics...

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...

Environmental Tip of the Week: Go Natural and Waste-Free for Easter

Apr 2, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

Popular holidays have become so commercialized and mass-produced, that they are hardly eco-friendly. Easter is a holiday that brings more than its share of wasteful, disposable plastic crap to stores months before it even happens. Clogging the shelves with...

Toxic Chemicals in Your Living Room

Dec 28, 2009Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws & Regulations

Toxic chemicals and your home —not two things we want to hear together in the same sentence. But toxic chemicals are much more ubiquitous in our homes than we’d like to think. For example, for years, chemical companies have been pouring their fire retardant chemicals...