10/02/2017
Official Warning to Consumers: Avoid Furniture, Kids’ Products, Mattresses, and Electronics Containing Toxic Flame Retardant Chemicals
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today published a warning to consumers, especially pregnant women and young children, to avoid kids’ products, electronics, mattresses, and home furniture that contain certain flame retardant chemicals, known as organohalogens. The CPSC is also callin...
09/25/2017
CEH Day Take Action – Children's Environmental Health Network
ABOUT CEH DAY PROMOTE TAKE ACTION DONATE CONTACT US Take Action PROMOTECEH DAY 1 Join the Movement - Endorse CEH Day then share your endorsement by...
09/25/2017
What does the environment have to do with autism? | Ensia
The search for autism’s causes is a daunting task — but researchers are investigating a variety of factors that might play a role.
05/29/2017
EWG's 2017 Guide to Safer Sunscreens
Almost three-fourths of the products we examined offer inferior sun protection or contain worrisome ingredients like oxybenzone, a hormone disruptor, or retinyl palmitate, a form of vitamin A that may harm skin.
04/23/2017
Join us at Southside Park for Sacramento's 2017 Earth Day Celebration! 🌿🌎 We can be found near the corner of 6th and T from 11-4, where we will be distributing informational materials about Children's Environmental Health and doing arts and crafts with the young'ns! Not to mention drooling over the caramel corn booth across the way....
04/21/2017
Mineral Fusion’s EWG VERIFIED™ Products Heading to CVS Shelves
Denver-based cosmetics and personal care brand Mineral Fusion will begin selling over 125 EWG VERIFIED™ color cosmetics in more than 300 CVS stores in California, making its product line more conveniently accessible to the health-minded consumer.
04/12/2017
Calif. Bill Would Be First to Ban Teflon-Like Chemicals from Fast Food Wrappers
PFCs are a family of compounds that includes the notorious cancer-causing chemical formerly used to make Teflon.
03/21/2017
Health Effects of Air Pollution Go Beyond Lung Disease | Media Relations
Air pollutants are linked to more cases of heart disease than lung disease, says new study co-authored by Rutgers’ director of clinical research and occupational medicine.
03/21/2017
This Fruit and Veggie Quiz Will Teach You When To Buy Organic
So you're not munching on a whole lot of pesticides.
03/08/2017
Introducing the SoICanBreathe season on the BBC
Running from 6 - 12th March, SoICanBreathe is a week of stories exploring some of the different ways the world is seeking to reduce air pollution. Emily Kasriel, season editor, introduces the season which is running across BBC News.
03/08/2017
Inheriting a sustainable world: Atlas on children’s health and the environment
This new edition is not simply an update but a more detailed review; we take into account changes in the major environmental hazards to children’s health over the last 13 years, due to increasing urbanization, industrialization, globalization and climate change, as well as efforts in the health sect...