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Recently Released: Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Fertility Summit (published in the journal of Fertility and Sterility)

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?"


5/7/08: An MP3 recording of the latest CHE Partnership Call Sick Plastic, Sick People? The Science and Policy of Bisphenol A is now available!


5/5/08: Breast cancer and chemical exposures: new documents from HEAL and CHEM Trust (translations in 6 languages)

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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CHE Partner Molly Jacobs, MPH: Running Toward a Sustainable Tomorrow

Program ManagerCHE Partner Molly Jacobs, MPH
Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts--Lowell
www.sustainableproduction.org

As told to Shelby Gonzalez, CHE Administrative Coordinator

When I was in second grade, we did a project where we were asked the question "If you found a money tree, what would you do?" My answer, in big block letters: "I would give it to the government so they could help people."

The theme of helping people came up again in a conversation with my father after a high school trip to Washington, D.C. I was completely moved by the passion and energy of those working in the public’s interest. I told him that I wanted to do the same and work on environmental issues.

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Why Hip Fat is Good, But Pot Bellies are Bad- May 9, 2008

New Scientist, England

Your body may store "good" fat and "bad" fat, similar to good and bad cholesterol.
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Flame Retardant Found in Falcon Eggs- May 9, 2008

Long Beach Press-Telegram, California

The eggs of peregrine falcons nesting in California's big cities have been found to be contaminated with the highest levels ever found in wildlife of a flame retardant used in consumer products.
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Kids with Older Siblings More Prone to Asthma Symptoms- May 9, 2008

Asian News International, South Asia

A new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health has discovered a significant link between birth order and development of asthma symptoms.
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Margaret L. Williams was raised at 27 East Pearl Street in Pensacola, Florida in a house next to the railroad tracks and wedged between two heavily polluting factories.
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EHN News
9 May Ravaged coastal buffer left land vulnerable. The deadly impact of the Myanmar cyclone was likely worsened by an environmental problem plaguing Asia's coastlines: widespread degradation of mangrove forests. Wall Street Journal.

9 May U.N. pressures Myanmar to allow aid. With up to 1.5 million people in Myanmar now believed to be facing the threat of starvation and disease United Nations officials all but demanded Thursday that the government open its doors to supplies and aid workers. New York Times.

9 May A call for criminal inquiry on mine collapse. Senior staff at Utah's Crandall Canyon Mine, where nine miners died last August, withheld information from federal officials that could have prevented the disaster and should face a criminal inquiry. New York Times.

9 May Evangelicals press to fight global warming. When the Senate takes up legislation next month to confront global warming, environmental groups will have some fervent new allies: evangelicals and other Christian activists. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

9 May More problems with plastics. Human exposure to hormone-disrupting synthetic chemicals, which can leach from a slew of consumer products, is continuous and widespread. US News & World Report.

9 May Governor hopefuls urge investigations. Three major-party gubernatorial candidates called Thursday for an aggressive investigation into the causes of cancer that occurs in some Delaware communities above the state average. Wilmington News Journal.

 

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