Ditching Disposables 2.0: A Toolkit for Healthier Foodware in K-12 Schools
It’s here! The new version of our popular Ditching Disposable toolkit.
CEH Responds to Biden-Harris Administration’s New Strategy to Tackle Plastic Pollution
The Center for Environmental Health praises the Biden-Harris Administration for recognizing the full scope of the plastic pollution crisis, including the issue of microplastics and nanoplastics, as well as acknowledging the scale of the response that is needed.
CEH Founder Michael Green Honored by San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation
For nearly forty years, furniture in the United States was treated with flame retardant chemicals that cause brain damage, cancer, and developmental challenges.
How Eco-Friendly Purchasing Policies Can Protect Health and the Environment
Pervasive in our homes, workplaces, environments, food, and bodies, toxic chemicals can cause lasting health impacts because of how they are manufactured, used, and disposed. CityHealth, an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, annually...
The Adventures of La Tóxica
The center for environmental health is proud to have collaborated with Environmental Health Coalition to produce the following short form videos. These videos follow La Tóxica and her community along their journey learning about Prop 65 and other CA right-to-know laws. We are thrilled EHC made these videos to reach a wider, Spanish-speaking audience to help make this vital information more accessible.
We Don’t Just Have a Plastics Problem; We Have a Single-Use Problem
In today’s fast-paced world, we are often eating on the go or rushing from one place to the next and it is no surprise to see how we’ve become dependent upon disposable products. It has been well-documented that single-use plastic food packaging–derived from petroleum...
Invisible Pollution: The urgent need for federal policy on ‘forever’ chemicals
Across the United States, we celebrated an early “Earth Day” win when the federal government announced last week a requirement for municipal water systems to remove six synthetic toxic chemicals from the tap water of hundreds of millions of people.
CEH Responds to U.S. EPA Designating Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ as Hazardous Substances
The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) applauds the U.S. EPA for designating PFOA and PFOS, two of the most studied Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
CEH Work Study Digest
Meet CEH’s Work Study students and learn how they’ve helped advance CEH’s mission while on our team. The UC Berkeley Work Study program gives students an opportunity to build professional skills and gain real-world work experience. We are always proud to celebrate our students and their contributions, especially during National Student Employment Week!
