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EDF report identifies companies in U.S. making chemicals called dangerous by EU

Hundreds of companies located in 37 of the 50 United States produce or import hundreds of chemicals designated as dangerous by the European Union (EU). As a result, these companies will be directly affected by controls imposed under the EU's new chemicals regulation, concludes Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in a report released today.

Environmental Health News

Daily aggregation of news from around the world about environmental factors affecting human health.

Household Hazards: Potential Hazards of Home Cleaning Products

A report that provides detailed information about household cleaning products - Monoethanolamine (MEA), Ammonium quaternary compounds, Glycol ethers, Alkyl phenol ethoxylates (APEs), Phthalates - and the harmful affects they have on human health.

Scientific Proceedings of the UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility

Elsevier and Fertility and Sterility have generously provided full access to the Scientific Proceedings of the 2007 University of California, San Francisco-Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility -- a groundbreaking multi-disciplinary conference on the reproductive and developmental health impacts of exposures to environmental contaminants.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Communities

The Massachusetts Council of Churches, in partnership with the NCC, is pleased to bring the Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Communities curriculum to the churches of the Commonwealth. We hope and pray that these activities and study sessions will help Christians in Massachusetts live out a faithful witness of health and wholeness, love of creation, and love of neighbor.

The Collaborative Fund Model: Effective Strategies for Grantmaking

Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development - The Collaborative Fund Model: Effective Strategies for Grantmaking

Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta

This is a link to the EJ Resource Center website hosted by Clark Atlanta University.

Funders Committee on Civic Participation resources

This is a link to FCCP's resource listings on civic participation and civic engagement.

Antibiotics in our livestock

May 1, 2008 - LA Times editorial on the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture, reflecting on the findings of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production.

"Mutual Neglect"--Mutual Fund Voting on Shareholder Toxic Chemical Resolutions

New report and press release available at the Investor Environmental Health Network's updated user-friendly website, www.iehn.org. Also see IEHN's latest (February) newsletter for analysis of shareholder engagements on PVC.

Healthy Alternatives for Your Home and Family

An easy description of how you can minimize your exposure to everyday chemicals that may be harmful to your health and the health of your family, pets and the environment. The everyday chemicals are grouped into three easy categories: cleaning products, cosmetics and personal care products and home and garden pest control.

The OMB Watcher

OMB Watch's biweekly newsletter, providing analyses and regular updates on developments in the areas of the organization's work.

Polluted Logic: How EPA's ozone standard illustrates the flaws of cost-benefit analysis

Polluted Logic tracks EPA's recent revision of the national standard for ozone and shows how the use of cost-benefit analysis in the rulemaking has been useless to policy makers and has only complicated the debate over whether to tighten the standard.

EPA Smoking Brochure

A tri-fold, colorful brochure with simple information and instruction on how to protect yourself from secondhand smoke.

Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming

April 30, 2008 - Washington Post article, by Rick Weiss, on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production's final report. Recommendations include phasing out the non-therapeutic use of medically important antibiotics in animal agriculture.

Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America

Final report of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, released April 29, 2008. Makes recommendations to policymakers and industry on how to improve the current state of industrial animal agriculture - one of which covers the phase out of non-therapeutic uses of medically important antibiotics.

GAO Letter to Senators about chemical regulation weakness in the US

A letter to Senators Jeffords, Lautenberg and Leahy from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) about the comparison of chemical regulation approaches in Canada, the European Union and the United States. The letter describes approaches of each nation to controlling chemical risks, their scope and methodology and lastly, the agency's comments and evaluation of each approach.

Penicillin in peril

July 10, 2008 - Baltimore Sun op/ed on key antibiotic resistance issues

SRI Call for Applications

A description of the application process for new breast cancer research initiatives this year through the California Breast Cancer Research Program (* with fast approaching deadlines). The link provides a description of the application process, estimated number of awards and amounts to be given, deadlines, start dates, research opportunities and other links to application materials, directions, past initiatives and more.

Alliance for Justice

This links to Alliance for Justice's resources for non-profits and foundations interested in civic engagement and public policy.

Pushback Network

This is a link to the website of the Pushback Network.

Toxic Link to Endometriosis

An article that describes how even small exposures over time to the chemical pollutant Dioxin can significantly increase the risk of developing Endometriosis and other immune abnormalities in women and children.

State Health Tracking - Trust for America's Health

Trust For America's Health developed a state health tracking tool that enables users to explore a state's health as it compares to national trends, including statistics on asthma, obesity, cancer, HIV rates, as well as dollars that are spent in the state on health and public health initiatives.

Why We Need Green Chemistry

This fact sheet, developed by Clean Production Action, Ecology Center, Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Biomimicry Institute, explains how green chemistry differs from traditional chemistry, what it's benefits are, and how it is being used today.

Why Promote Green Chemistry

This fact sheet, developed by Clean Production Action, Ecology Center, Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Biomimicry Institute, explores what green chemistry is and why and how people should promote its use.

Keep Antibiotics Working

Keep Antibiotics Working website

Healthy Communities Sustainable Communities

A presentation made by the Center for Social Inclusion on equity and land use planning in Richland County, South Carolina.

Securing our Survival: Meeting the Threats of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming

Over two hundred people gathered at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday, October 12, to hear national and internationally known experts talk about the most pressing issues of our time: the dangers posed to our planet by global warming and nuclear weapons. Hundreds more in the US and abroad participated via a web broadcasting of the event. The conference brought together students, academics, and community members to not only discuss the security and public health threats posed by nuclear weapons and global warming, but to hear about solutions that can help lead us to a healthier and more secure world. A half-day session on Saturday, October 13th brought together local and state activists with national PSR leaders to discuss specific ways to address the issues, as well as a way for disarmament and global warming activists to collaborate in sharing their concerns with political leaders and the general public. The uniqueness of the conference was noted by a number of speakers, who reflected, not only on the importance of confronting these major threats to survival, but on the links between the issues. For example, pursuing increased reliance on nuclear power to confront global warming brings its own problems through heightened proliferation dangers and the health risks associated with the transportation and handling of nuclear waste. Noted speakers included Joseph Cirincione, of the Center for American Progress, Doug Shaw, PSR, and Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Skin Deep - Cosmetics Safety Database

This database, developed and maintained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), enables users to assess the safety of the personal care products they and their families use and explore safer alternatives.

Scientific Proceedings of the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility

A report containing the scientific proceedings of the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility broken down by each session speaker/contributor. The scientific proceedings discuss the wide range of environmental toxins that affect human health, the various health effects of even low-dose exposures to these toxins and the consequences of these adverse health effects.

TSCA: Legislative Changes Could Make the Act More Effective (GAO report)

“Concerned that EPA has been slow to implement TSCA, Senate and House Subcommittee Chairmen with responsibilities for overseeing the act asked GAO to review the agency’s progress and identify changes to make the act more effective. Specifically, the Chairmen asked GAO to review EPA’S efforts to (1) assess chemicals under TSCA, (2) control those found to be harmful, and (3) make TSCA’s information on chemical risk publicly available by reducing the amount of information that the industry claims as confidential.”

Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline

Chronicles/case studies of environmental struggles and implications for the future.

Clean New York website

 

World Bucket Brigade Report: Telling Toxic Truth Worldwide

New Global Report Documents Grassroots Action to Monitor Toxic Pollution: Industrial Communities Unite to Demand Clean Air on Earth Day 2008

Speaker Presentations from PSR Conference: The Health Consequences of Global Warming

Existence of the human species depends directly on the health and condition of our planet. Pollutants contributing to global warming contribute to a wide range of phenomena affecting human health and security. The consequences of rapidly changing climate are already felt by many of the more vulnerable populations on earth. Despite the evidence pointing to the gravity and urgency of the threat to health and security posed by global warming, many do not yet perceive these threats to be substantial, and many of those who do are uncertain about what interventions are needed. This conference examined the chains of cause and effect that create climate change and consequent threats to human health. To render these linkages more comprehensible and immediate, climate change was framed within its direct and indirect threats to health and human rights by integrating perspectives and methods from such disparate disciplines as medicine, law, business, religion, and environmental science. The conference concluded by highlighting successful interventions being implemented across the U.S. and other parts of the globe. By the conference conclusion, health care providers and public health policy framers understood the range of effective action steps needed for both primary prevention and ameliorating the adverse impacts on human health and human rights due to rapid global climate change.

Toxic Free NC

Toxic Free NC is a resource-based website provided by the Agricultural Resources Center (ARC) and the Pesticide Education Project (PESTed) which discusses the many uses and dangers of pesticides. The site focuses on five main topics: Resources for Activists, Farmworkers and Pesticides, Toxic-Free Kids, Alternatives (to pesticides) and Pesticide Spray Drift.

Science & Environmental Health Network: Precautionary Principle

The Science & Environmental Health Network provides a list of essays that discuss the issues surrounding precautionary principles and the resulting effects on the environment.

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment

The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment is a part of the National Center for Excellence in Women’s Health in the University of California’s Medical Center. The program focuses on furthering epidemiological research, education, policy analysis and proposal development of environmental reproductive health issues. Specifically, the program aims to gain a greater public understanding of the potentially dangerous effects of chemical exposures on reproductive health.

Reclaiming Choice, Broadening the Movement: Sexual and Reproductive Justice and Asian Pacific American Women, A National Agenda for Action

The Agenda for Action focuses upon the historic, economic and political trends and barriers of sexual and reproductive health with Asian Pacific American women. The Agenda then offers recommendations for action to be taken nationally by policy, health care and advocate officials that help to protect reproductive health and rights of Asian Pacific American women.

Protecting the Health of Nail Salon Workers

An EPA guide that discusses the harmful exposures to chemicals in nail salons and the actions salon workers and owners can take to protect themselves from overexposure.

Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Atlas

By using a geographic information system (GIS), the Silent Spring Institute – working with Applied Geographics, Inc., MassGIS and the Cape Cod Commission – has created an innovative mapping system that looks for overlapping patterns in breast cancer incidence and environmental features.

21 Environmental Health NGOs Urge Mutual Fund Support For Shareholder Resolutions at Dow and Avon on Product Safety

A group of 21 environmental health NGOs, led by Pesticide Action Network, sent letters to the major mutual fund holders of Dow and Avon urging their support for shareholder resolutions on pesticide/asthma links at Dow (May 15th vote) and at Avon Products on nanomaterials in cosmetics and personal care products (May 1st vote). The press release on the PAN site hotlinks to the letter text and its fact sheet attachments on the two resolutions.

Made in the Image of God: A Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Download this 2-page flyer from the Judeo Christian perspective on why people of faith should be concerned about regulating the cosmetics industry and what some of the most toxic chemicals in cosmetics products are currently out on the market.

Environmental Health Perspectives

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Its content is free online.

Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site

Scorecard is the web's most popular resource for information about pollution problems and toxic chemicals. Find out about the pollution problems in your community and learn who is responsible. See which geographic areas and companies have the worst pollution records. Identify which racial/ethnic and income groups bear more than their share of environmental burdens. Then take action as an informed citizen - you can fax a polluting company, contact your elected representatives, or get involved in your community.

University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Environmental Oncology

A center that is dedicated to making scientific connections between environmental toxins and pollution to cancer in humans. The center also works to help prevent cancer in humans by limiting individuals’ exposure to these environmental hazards. The web page provides links to additional resources about the environment, toxins and cancer as well.

Women’s Voices for the Earth

Women’s Voices for the Earth (WE) is an organization that works to protect the environment and human’s health from pollutants and dangerous toxins. The organization focuses on having safer cleaning products and cosmetics, preventing mercury exposure and creating policies and regulations to protect humans and the environment together.

EPA Home Water Testing

A fact sheet that provides information to help readers decide if their water needs to be tested for contaminants. Furthermore, the fact sheet helps readers to decide which test would be most appropriate to use and why.

Healthy Fish Healthy Families

Information about how to consume seafood while still limiting the amount of potentially toxic exposures from environmental pollutants in seafood. The pamphlet also contains a useful guide on the safety levels (amount of mercury, PCBs or other toxins) in different types of seafood that are most often consumed.

National Partnership for Women & Families

Founded in 1971 as the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, the National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to prevent discrimination in the work place, sustain equal health care treatment and protect legislation that assists working men and women who have families.

Smart Meat and Dairy Guide for Parents and Children

A guide to help the consumer make more informed choices about meat and dairy products that contain less pollutants, hormones and antibiotics and are produced more environmentally sustainable.

Mindful Living: Human Health, Pollution, and Toxics

An education, action, and worship resource to promote stewardship of the environment and our bodies with churches.

The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls: What We Know, What We Need to Know

A report written by Sandra Steingraber exploring the falling age of puberty in U.S. girls.

Environmental Sampling Techniques

Provides introductory descriptions of several types of sampling for environmental chemical pollutants. For example, the web page provides information about how to test for air pollution and properly conduct soil and wipe sampling.

2008 Proxy Season Preview

Health care reform, toxics, product safety, nanomaterials, political donations, worker exposure…......... Every year there are hundreds of shareholder resolutions on environmental health and social issues that are directly relevant to the missions of foundations. Learn how your foundation — by voting its shareholder proxies — can leverage its investments and help push public companies to act on these vital issues. The 2008 Proxy Season Preview is designed specifically to help foundations identify these resolutions and vote their proxies in an informed manner. The Chicago Tribune calls it the “Bible for socially progressive foundations”. The Preview highlights key issues, describes current social and environmental resolutions, identifies the investors and organizations filing them, provides a comprehensive list of companies and upcoming proxy votes, features new foundation reports, and includes a resource section that will enable foundations to learn more about what their colleagues are doing in the way of aligning mission and investments. This new publication is from As You Sow, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and is available at no charge at www.asyousow.org

TOXIC PRODUCT RECALL BACKLASH SEEN AS INVESTORS FILE RECORD 21 RESOLUTIONS ON WIDE RANGE OF CHEMICAL, PRODUCT SAFETY CONCERNS

This is a press release providing details on investor engagements with companies on safer chemicals/materials issues this proxy season. The full text is on the Investor Environmental Health Network website. Note also the reference in the release to IEHN's new report, Toxic Stock Syndrome, about corporate (non)disclosure practices on toxics. The press release contains a hotlink to that report released in April and our site also contains an audio of our press conference featuring Rich Liroff, Calvert Investment's Bennett Freeman, and Dr. Lynn Goldman.

Toxipedia: Connecting Science and People with Trusted Information

A free, online toxicology encyclopedia and active resource center that allows individuals to search, post information and discuss topics surrounding toxicology. (Posted items are edited by Toxipedia for accuracy.)

Be Safe Issue Page

A resource for multiple issue-based brochures about environmental health and justice.

Science & Environmental Health Network: Ethical Economics

Ethical Economics is a resource page of the SEHN website that connects users to a diverse collection of articles, reports and analyses that focus on the economic, health and social costs of environmental and worker exploitation. In addition, there are also links included that discuss the diverse benefits of environmental remediation and the greater need for preventative policies to ensure environmental sustainability.

OMB Watch on Health, Safety, and Environmental Protections

In this video, OMB Watch Executive Director Gary Bass discusses the importance of public protections; the Bush administration's track record on such protections; and what the American people can do to take our country back from the big-monied special interests that are endangering our health and safety.

OMB Watch 2006 Annual Report

OMB Watch's 2006 Annual Report, containing letters from the Chairman of the Board, the Executive Director, summaries of work from all four program areas, a special FedSpending.org highlight, and a donor list.

Dismantling the Public's Right to Know

Under the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is slowly dismantling its flagship environmental information tool--the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). The program has been protected and improved for over the last 15 years, serving as a constant example of the vital role information plays in a democracy. Unfortunately, the program's success has made it a target for those that seek to reduce corporate oversight and accountability.

Against the Public's Will

This summary of responses to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plans to cut toxic reporting offers a detailed analysis of the comments submitted to EPA's public docket on the proposed changes to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The report identifies nine stakeholder groups, details the level of support or opposition of each group, and summarizes the main points raised by each group.

A Failure to Govern: Bush's Attack on the Regulatory Process

A Failure to Govern: Bush's Attack on the Regulatory Process outlines President Bush's 2007 changes to the regulatory process. The report details the potential impacts the changes will have on federal agencies and the American public, as well as what the changes mean to democracy at large.

Chemicals and Products of Concern

A list of articles, grouped alphabetically by chemical, that discuss the dangers of chemical exposures to humans and the environment (provided by the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow).

Moms Making Our Milk Safe

The Moms organization works to protect the health of our nation’s babies by reducing and ultimately eliminating chemicals and pollutants found in women’s breast milk. The organization focuses on education of consumers, supporting legislation and potentially changing corporate behavior to better protect human health, particularly the health of our children.

It’s Your Right to Know Your Community’s Exposure to Toxins

A report discussing the history and implications of the Community Right-to-Know Act, the State and Local Emergency Response Commission and the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The report also further describes how to initiate action to protect your community from toxic exposures.

How to stop superbugs

July 5, 2008 - Excellent editorial in the Boston Globe on ways to address the problem of antibiotic resistance

PesticideInfo Database

Searchable on-line database with toxicity data and regulatory information on more than 6,000 pesticide active ingredients.

PANNA Newsroom

Latest press advisories and featured media coverage from Pesticide Action Network.

Confronting Toxic Contamination in Our Communities: Women's Health and California's Future

Written and published by the Women's Foundation of California, this report demonstrates how women and their families are exposed in homes and neighborhoods, at work, in the broader community, and across the state. Also in this report, we highlight individuals and organizations working to improve human health and fight toxic contamination in different areas of California.

Using Our Power: Communities Confronting Toxins in the Bay Area

"Using Our Power: Communities Confronting Toxins in the Bay Area" is a supplement to "Confronting Toxic Contamination in Our Communities." This report focuses on issues in the Bay Area, and on grassroots efforts to effect change in different local neighborhoods.

Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.

State of the Evidence 2006: What Is the Connection Between the Environment and Breast Cancer?

Published by Breast Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Action, this State of the Evidence report demonstrates that a significant body of scientific evidence links exposure to radiation and synthetic chemicals to an increased risk of breast cancer, summarizing the findings of more than 350 experimental, epidemiologic and ecological studies. Additionally, the report recommends new directions for future research and includes a 10-point plan to act on the evidence and reduce human exposure to radiation and synthetic chemicals.

The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way to Environmental Health

The Luminary Project is a web-based effort to capture the illuminating stories of nurses' activities to improve human health by improving the health of the environment. The stories on this site show how nurses are creatively and strategically addressing environmental problems and illuminating the way towards safe hospitals, communities with clean air, land and water and children born without toxic chemicals in their bodies. The Luminary Project is a collaboration of the Nurses Workgroup of Health Care Without Harm and the nurses and nursing organizations who are the Guiding Lights and Beacons for this Project. The Beldon Fund is providing the financial support for The Luminary Project.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This is the CDC's resource page on environmental health, including education and training materials, informational fact sheets, data & statistics, publications and relevant news, events, campaigns and programs.

The Effects of Workplace Hazards on Female Reproductive Health

Information specifically focused on how workplace hazards - such as chemicals, drugs, cigarette smoke, viruses, radiation and alcohol - can negatively affect women’s reproductive health and the health of her child.

Why Breast Feeding is Still Good for Baby

The article ensures readers that despite concerns about chemical pollutants in breast milk, breast feeding is still the healthiest way for infants to receive essential nutrients. To put it in a very succinct and eloquent manner: “considering all currently available scientific evidence, breast is still best” (The American Academy of Pediatrics).

Environmental Endocrine Disruptors

The article describes in detail the health effects of endocrine disruptors, or “any substances that alters normal hormonal levels or activity in the body,” and how people are exposed to these chemicals (Physicians for Social Responsibility).

Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children

Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated with Exposure to Chemicals: WHO report on children's environmental health, released this summer, highlights " children's special susceptibility to harmful chemical exposures at different periods of their growth."

National Healthy Schools Day

Our save-the-date flyer for the annual National Healthy Schools Day, April 28, 2008.

Healthy Schools/Healthy Kids Clearinghouse

Healthy Schools Network's award-winning clearinghouse of informational resources for improving the health of school environments.

Center for Environmental Health (CEH)

The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is a non-profit based in California that focuses on the diverse issues surrounding environmental health. In particular, the organization looks at how industrial chemicals harm human and environmental health and what individuals can do to help eliminate toxins and strengthen laws for greener industries.

OMB Watch 2007 Annual Report

OMB Watch's 2007 Annual Report, containing letters from the Chairman of the Board, the Executive Director, summaries of work from all four program areas, project and publication highlights, and a donor list.

Health & Environment Bulletin for Health Care Providers – Spring 2007

A bulletin outlining research findings that connect reproductive health and the environment. The bulletin takes a specific focus on the negative effects chemical toxins can have on fertility and reproductive health for both men and women.

Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has officially endorsed an innovative new tool to help pediatric providers incorporate age-appropriate intervention guidance on environmental health during well-child visits - the Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit. The Toolkit was developed by the Greater Boston (GBPSR) and San Francisco Bay Area chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility in partnership with the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at the University of California, San Francisco, and a team of pediatricians from around the country. The Toolkit includes reference and anticipatory guidance materials for both providers and patients including desk and pocket references for providers and "Rx for Prevention" slips and magnets for patients. The components are designed to make it easy for providers to provide information to patients on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that may affect child health. MCAPP also endorsed the Pediatric Toolkit.

Fact Sheet on the Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power

Mounting concern about U.S. dependence on foreign oil and rising energy prices has sparked a rush to build a fleet of new coal-fired power plants. With more than 100 new plants on the drawing board around the country, coal proponents argue that tapping into our nation's large reserves of coal is necessary for improving U.S. energy security and essential to providing cheap electricity in the face of rising energy demand. However, only by ignoring its very serious health and environmental impacts can coal-fired power be considered a low-cost energy source. Setting aside the fact that coal has little practical utility as a transportation fuel and therefore will have a negligible impact on our nation's addiction to oil, coal-fired power is one of the most polluting forms of energy available, particularly when compared to renewable energy alternatives such as wind, solar and geothermal power.

CHE Toxicant and Disease Database

A searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions.

PANNA homepage

In-depth website with searchable information on PANNA campaigns and resources on a wide range of pesticide issues.

Malaria/DDT Resource Center

On-line resource center with joint position statements on the importance of sustainable malaria control from Pesticide Action Network International and environmental and public health partners, and links to dozens of scientific studies on sustainable malaria control solutions and the health and environmental effects of DDT use for malaria control.

The Pump Handle blog

A public health blog with a focus on environmental and occupational health. Interested in becoming a guest contributor? Email eoheab@gwumc.edu for details.

Environment and Breast Cancer: Science Review

Susan G. Komen for the Cure funded the Environment and Breast Cancer: Science Review to assess scientific research on environmental exposures and nonhereditary factors that may increase breast cancer risk. The series of five articles was published in a supplement of the journal Cancer on May 14, 2007. The studies were done by Silent Spring Institute, with additional researchers from Harvard University, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University of Southern California. The researchers synthesized national and international data sources and identified 216 chemicals that caused breast tumors in animal studies, and several chemicals that have been linked to breast cancer in humans. They used this information to create a comprehensive, searchable online database with details on potential breast carcinogens.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

This is the Environmental Protection Agency's page on human health, including advisories, information on exposures, occupational health, food safety, toxicity, health risks, and other topics. Pages to check out include: "Children's Health Protection" for the latest information on protecting children's health from environmental hazards; "Human Health Research Program"; and the report, Environment: Human Health.

"Sex Education"

A primer on chemicals, fertility, and reproduction published by Grist on September 18, 2007.

Race Matters Toolkit

A toolkit--designed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation--to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials get better results in their work by providing equitable opportunities for all. The approach described in the toolkit deals specifically with policies and practices that contribute to inequitable outcomes for children, families, and communities.

Our Health and the Health of the Environment

This is a public policy primer on environmental health written by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.

Center for Health, Environment and Justice: Community Assistance

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) assists individuals with forming community groups and helps to provide the newly formed group with tools to help achieve their goals.

The Green Flag Program

The organization helps students to form a Green Flag team that works with stakeholders to improve the environmental health conditions of the school while promoting student leadership. Student groups that show excellent achievement in making their schools greener and healthier are given the honored Green Flag Award and are featured on the website. The project areas the organization focuses on for improving school conditions include: “reduce, reuse, recycle,” “indoor air quality,” “integrated pest management,” and “non-toxic products” (The Green Flag Program).

A Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools

A link that allows you to purchase the “Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools” for $1.

Protecting Public Health from Toxic Mercury

A detailed description of why mercury exposure can be hazardous to your health, safer alternatives and a break down of Minnesota’s Mercury Product Bill and other solutions.

Full Application of the SRI Call for Applications

 

Environmental Health 101

This is a brief environmental health primer that HEFN wrote for the Community Giving Resource.

National Center for Environmental Health: A-Z Index