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Water Treatment Technology Seminar

A seminar with leading experts in water treatment technology.

Healthy Schools Network: October is Children's Health Month at EPA

In honor of Children's Health Month, we highlight the major children’s environmental health agenda we are moving across EPA, HHS, and Education in collaboration with members of the national Coalition for Healthier Schools. We also outline opportunities to advance child health protections.

Growing the Reproductive Justice Movement: A Toolkit for Funders

Created by the Women of Color Working Group of the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights, the toolkit is a resource for grantmakers interested in learning about supporting Reproductive Justice and making the links between reproductive health and environmental justice, economic justice, criminal justice, and other issues. The toolkit includes a four-part video series that is suitable for screening at foundation staff and board meetings. It features interviews with funders who share their experiences and insights from funding this work. The toolkit also contains a companion document that answers questions funders often ask about Reproductive Justice and examines case studies in which organizations using the Reproductive Justice framework made significant policy and other advances. Among many other resources, the toolkit also provides information on ways to fund Reproductive Justice and Women of Color-led organizations.

Autism and the Environment 101: A Free Online Course

The online course will take approximately 45 minutes to complete. The course covers the following areas: * The New Model of Autism * Rapidly Rising Rates of Autism Spectrum Disorders * Toxic Body Burden * The Role of Government * What We Can Do Every Day

Health Effects of Shale Gas Extraction (Hydrofracking)

The 2nd Annual Conference on Health Effects of Shale Gas Extraction explored the science and methodological approaches behind understanding environmental health impacts associated with increasing development of natural gas extraction from shale deposits. Presentations from the conference are now available on line.

ChemSec

ChemSec (The International Chemical Secretariat) is a non-profit organisation working for a toxic free environment. Our focus is to highlight the risks of hazardous substances and influence and speed up legislative processes. We act as a catalyst for open dialogue between authorities, business and NGOs and collaborate with companies committed to taking the lead. All of our work is geared to stimulating public debate and action on the necessary steps towards a toxic free world.

The OMB Watcher

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

EPA Smoking Brochure

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

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.

Federal progress on environmental health in schools: EPA releases first overdue guideline, Department of Education harmonizes a new schools award program with EPA’s criteria

EPA is making good on commitments. In October, after continued prodding from Healthy Schools Network and allies in the national Coalition for Healthier Schools, the agency released its overdue guideline for schools on siting, with additional guidelines expected soon on school indoor environments.

Climate & Health Presentation

Presentation to accompany HEFN conference call on Nov.2 with Dr. Cindy Parker.

"Our Neighborhoods and Our Health" DVD

"Our Neighborhoods and Our Health," a DVD featuring highlights from the 4th Annual Upstream Health Leadership Award and Policy Program, is now available at no charge. The program focuses on the impact of neighborhoods and housing on health, and features the work of Minnesota Green Communities, keynote speaker Ana Diez Roux of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities at the University of Michigan and a panel discussion on the policy implications of the links between health, housing and neighborhoods.

HEFN Membership Flyer

HEFN's membership/outreach flyer.

Healthy Communities Sustainable Communities

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

Assessing the Human Health Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Session recordings and slides from of a June 22-23, 2010 meeting of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Wiki page on Oil Dispersant and Environmental Toxicology

Wiki page on Oil Dispersant and Environmental Toxicology on Toxipedia, a moderated wiki on toxic chemicals, environmental health, and toxicology

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.”

Pediatric Environmental History Forms

NEEF's Pediatric Environmental History Initiative is a multi-year campaign to make environmental history-taking a routine practice for health care providers. In order to provide the tools needed to incorporate environmental history taking into medical and nursing training for clinicians, NEEF created a user-friendly environmental history form for health care providers treating pediatric patients. The Screening Environmental History is designedto be administered by the primary health care provider in less than five minutes in order to capture most of the common environmental exposures to children. The Additional Categories and Questions to Supplement the Screening Environmental History provides further categories and questions for the health care provider to ask if a positive response is given to one or more of the screening questions.

May 2011 Issue of Health Affairs - Devoted to Environmental Challenges for Health

The journal articles provide “an overview of the large body of evidence demonstrating the impact of environment on health and health care costs, in areas as diverse as air and water quality, food policy, the built environment, and genetics.” The issue also includes “Philanthropy at the Intersection of Health and the Environment,” co-authored by HEFN Directors Karla Fortunato and Kathy Sessions. The issue was funded by the Kresge Foundation.

Capitol Hill Summit on Sustainable Communities, Environmental Justice and the New Economy

This is a document describing plans for a 2009 Capitol Hill Summit on Sustainable Communities, Environmental Justice and the New Economy.