http://www.hefn.org daily 1 2009-07-22T00:07:34Z http://www.hefn.org/stories/grassroots-global-justice-ggj-congress-september-16-18-2011-in-raleigh-n-c No publisher jtbravo 2011-09-29T14:53:23Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/congressional-hispanic-caucus-public-policy-conference-on-september-12-13 No publisher jtbravo 2011-09-29T14:52:53Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/state-legislative-field-hearing-in-thermal-ca-on-environmental-safety-toxins No publisher jtbravo 2011-09-22T14:53:31Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/clean-air-and-toxics-free-action-day No publisher jtbravo 2011-09-22T14:52:54Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/che-and-sehn-announce-new-cumulative-impacts-project The national Cumulative Impacts Project was officially launched in May 2011 by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) and the Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN). The Cumulative Impacts Project is dedicated to promoting science, law, and policy that will reduce cumulative impacts. No publisher emiller 2011-06-15T18:56:48Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/oregon-environmental-council2019s-successful-eco-healthy-child-care-program-becomes-national-organization Program merges with another leading program to increase capacity and effectiveness in offering comprehensive environmental-health standards to child-care providers throughout the United States No publisher LRost 2010-10-18T17:20:17Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/from-the-frontlines-gulf-stories-with-wilma-subra Voices from the spill and the end of fishing in the Gulf. No publisher evarga Featured Story 2010-07-07T15:18:13Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/2010-women2019s-health-the-environment-conference Teresa Heinz was joined by a sell-out audience at the 2010 Women's Health & the Environment Conference where attendees learned more about the effects environmental exposures have on women's health and the importance of prevention No publisher evarga Featured Story 2010-06-07T18:01:53Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/presidents-cancer-panel-environmentally-caused-cancers-are-grossly-underestimated-and-needlessly-devastate-american-lives The panel advised President Obama "to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air..." No publisher evarga Featured Story 2010-06-10T15:04:39Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/blue-cross-and-blue-shield-of-minnesota-foundation-grantee-story Grantee Story highlighting work of the National Center for Healthy Housing, Worthington, Minnesota. No publisher evarga Featured Story 2010-06-10T15:00:50Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/letter-to-michelle-obama Chemicals known as endocrine disruptors may be associated with a range of health concerns and may also act as "obesogens" – substances that trigger the propensity to develop obesity. No publisher emiller 2010-04-16T14:02:48Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/mind-disrupted Twelve leaders and self-advocates from the learning and developmental disabilities community recently stepped forward to have their bodies tested for the presence of a set of known or suspected neurotoxic or endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Mind, Disrupted is a synthesis of the results of these tests and the experiences of the participants, and this report is intended to spotlight these pressing questions and prompt actions to reduce these exposures that may impair how we think -- and, in the most basic ways, who we are. No publisher emiller Featured Story 2010-02-22T16:20:53Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/pseg-agrees-to-cut-hours-at-new-haven-plants In the first major agreement secured through Connecticut's new environmental justice law, PSEG has consented to reduce hours of operation at its current power plants in New Haven and to create a $500,000 fund to reduce local pollution in neighborhoods impacted by its plants. The move promises to improve air quality for sensitive populations in nearby neighborhoods. No publisher nkovacs other 2010-02-22T16:21:37Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/building-support-for-a-global-mercury-treaty Mercury Policy Project (MPP) presents a hopeful view of building a Global Mercury Treaty to protect families around the world from mercury contamination. No publisher kwells other 2010-06-07T18:01:25Z Story http://www.hefn.org/stories/changing-the-research-agenda Science has always followed the money but we can make it follow the public interest. No publisher njmyers 2009-10-22T16:24:04Z Story