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WHAT'S NEW
RSVP now for the next CHE Partnership Call - Table Matters: How Industrial Animal Production Impacts Health and the Environment
Now available: MP3 recording and useful resources from the recent call on environmental impacts on autoimmune diseases - July 1, 2008
5/9/08: CHE featured in AARP: "The Body Toxic" 5/9/08: CHE Partner Dr. Philip Landrigan interview in Discover: "How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?"
4/15/08: Now available: State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment 2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. 1/25/08: New environmental health-themed issue of San Francisco Medicine, journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, is now available online. 3/1/08: Two new chemicals policy reports from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. 9/1/07: The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields
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Asthma: Newsfeed
5 Jul Give your home a green clean. You?ll probably be surprised to learn that your house isn?t actually clean. In fact, the air in it is about two to five times more polluted than the air outside ? due entirely to the amount of chemicals in your everyday cleaning products. 5 Jul County tallies its greenhouse gas emissions. In a sign of growing attention to a warming planet, Mecklenburg County has finished its first greenhouse-gas inventory of county government operations. 5 Jul Ken Dodd centre stage in battle on homes. ?I looked up in the dictionary the definition of ?developer?. It means ?to grow or exploit the natural resources of a region?. 5 Jul Some towns fight mosquitoes before they bite. To spray or not to spray? As millions of mosquitoes hatch this summer, it's a question cities and towns across Hub Territory face. 5 Jul Outdoor buffs must exercise caution on smoggy days. The Southland is heading into its roughest air quality season, when heat, sun, air pollution and smoke from wildfires can cause lung irritation and shortness of breath in even healthy people. 5 Jul Leaf-blower bans protect the health of the public. We commend those municipalities in Westchester where public health laws currently restrict the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. 5 Jul Mind That Child. In most cases it is the same street children that we see eating from garbage cans that visit dumpsites. 5 Jul 'Energy minutemen' not who Hatch thinks they are. Sen. Orrin Hatch needs a history lesson. America's minutemen were our defenders on the front line--and oil shale development is front line only as a means of destroying Utah's remaining wild land. 5 Jul Will Richmond, Ca, stand up to Chevron? The City of Richmond may be the first to stand up the Chevron this month if it turns down the company?s effort to refine dirty crude oil. If not, the city will be far more polluted than it already is, and a serious health problems, for all. 4 Jul Along with beauty, fireworks create a beastly mix of pollutants. When the rockets and the bombs burst in the air tonight, spectators will experience more than a spectacular show celebrating America's birthday. 4 Jul A greener July Fourth? Chemists are trying to make our annual fireworks extravaganzas much greener because a big fireworks show releases poisonous chemicals, with potential effects on people and wildlife that have not been fully evaluated. 4 Jul Asthma in pregnancy: how does it affect mother and child? Asthma is one of the most common medical conditions in developed countries, and it affects approximately eight percent of women in their child-bearing years. 4 Jul Physicians suggest ways to take a holiday from allergies. Erma Seagreaves loves the rocket's red glare as much as the next patriot, but the 88-year-old resident of the B'nai Brith Apartments in Allentown won't risk watching the fireworks this year, unless it's from her balcony. 4 Jul High cost of oil turns focus back to wood. Facing a winter where home heating oil likely will cost $4.50 or more per gallon, a task force created by the governor believes the public is ready to start making the switch back to the state's most plentiful homegrown resource: wood. 4 Jul Electricity charges to be investigated. More and more people in Wales are falling into fuel poverty so this price difference needs to be urgently addressed. |