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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
Partnership call: Advancing Risk Assessment: Progress and Ongoing Obstacles
4/26/12: MP3 recording available: CHE Cafe call: Designing Healthy Communities: a conversation with Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE Alaska call: Little Changes: A Discussion with Author Kristi Marsh on How to Avoid Chemicals in Food and Everyday Products:
May 30, 2012
CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health and CHE EMF working groups call: EMF and Reproductive Health Risks:
May 21, 2012
Cumulative Impacts Working Group Strategic Meeting:
May 22, 2012
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Birth Defects: Newsfeed
16 May Garden equipment found to contain hazardous chemicals. While there's no dearth of studies examining the presence of questionable chemicals in household staples such as cleaners, toys, and personal care products, similar studies that focus on gardening gear -- hoses, gloves, hand tools, kneeling pads and the like -- are rarer. 16 May Planned power plant in jeopardy after judge finds flaws in TCEQ permit. A Travis County judge has stalled plans for a Corpus Christi power plant after finding flaws in the air pollution permit issued by state regulators. 16 May Loveland enacts emergency fracking ban, Fort Collins may follow. New oil and gas drilling and fracking are now temporarily banned in Loveland and may soon be in Fort Collins as well. 15 May Obesity in pregnancy: Carrying too many pounds can give your baby a life of weight problems. Overweight mothers-to-be could be condemning their unborn children to decades of ill health. Babies whose mothers were carrying extra pounds when pregnant are more likely to be fat and unhealthy as adults, researchers say. 15 May We need stronger standards for state's waterways. Cleaning up toxic sites, raising standards for testing and going after out-of-state coal plants should not be "the one that got away." We need government to stand up and do its job in protecting us and the food we eat. 14 May Nairobi?s garbage dump pits pickers against neighbours. An estimated 6,000 people come daily to mine the Dandora city dump, sorting waste that can be eaten or sold to recycling companies. But most of the 1 million people living near Dandora want the trash site gone and have organized themselves into a grassroots campaign called Stop Dumping Death On Us. 14 May Vermont utilities see growing 'smart meter' opposition. Worries about health effects, privacy and cost are fueling growing opposition to wireless, digital "smart meters" that utilities around the country are installing at homes and businesses and touting as key energy conservation and grid reliability tools. 12 May Prenatal smoking tied to worse asthma in kids. Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy may have a tougher time controlling their asthma than other kids do, a new study suggests. 12 May Appalachian women put strip-mining on trial. It's been almost 35 years since Lois Gibbs became an environmental activist after she discovered her 7-year-old son's elementary school in Niagara Falls, N.Y., was built on a toxic waste dump. This week, Gibbs was in West Virginia to hear the stories of women whose families live near mountaintop removal coal mining operations. 11 May REACH chemical safety review: Re-opening a can of worms? Five years after its adoption, the European Commission is preparing to review the controversial REACH regulation, which for the first time required chemical manufacturers to justify that their products are safe for consumers before placing them on the market. 11 May Climate-related disasters on the rise in Asia-Pacific. During the last two decades, 45 per cent of the world?s natural disasters, whether it be floods in Pakistan in 2010 or the cyclone that hit Burma in 2008, have occurred in the Asia-Pacific region, resulting in numerous deaths, massive human dislocations and severe economic losses. 11 May Is having weed-free lawn worth it? "Your lawn is in battle mode" was printed on the envelope I received from the lawn care company. "Harmful weed and pest threats are showing up." In addressing these issues, this company and homeowners spread war defoliants, insecticides and fungicides?substances highly hazardous to life. 10 May Toxic from the tap. The water that flows from China's Xiang River and into faucets of residents has been tainted from the source for decades. The central government classified the water as toxic in the1980s and water experts say the river's water is so concentrated with cancer-causing heavy metals that regular treatment systems have collapsed. 10 May One street. Nine babies born with a horrific, rare deformity. Were their mothers poisoned by weedkiller? Gastroschisis should affect just one child in 7,000 but here on Waterdales, an unassuming road in Northfleet, any woman who falls pregnant fears her baby may be next. Is it all just a coincidence? 9 May The US is destroying itself to feed foreign energy markets. The industry is waving the flag of energy independence to get Americans to overlook the risks and buy into fracking, but the rush to produce shale gas has little to do with domestic energy needs. |