From Center for Environmental Health
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Center for Environmental Health
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.
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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 and further worsening the ongoing climate crisis–can harm human health as […]
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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.
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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).