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The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is an American non-profit organization (501(c) organization working to protect children and families from harmful chemicals in air, food, water and in everyday products. Its vision and mission are "(A) world where everyone lives, works, learns and plays in a healthy environment; we protect people from toxic chemicals by working with communities, businesses, and the government to demand and support business practices that are safe for human health and the environment." CEH is headquartered in Oakland, California, in the United States, with East Coast offices in Washington, D.C. and North Carolina Source
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Search ArticlesReceipts are About to get Safer: How CEH Got One Toxic Phenol After Another Out of Receipts
Big news: We just announced legally binding settlements with 163 retailers, manufacturers, and distributors of receipt paper for exposing consumers to Bisphenol S (BPS)! BPS is a hormone-disrupting chemical that mimics estrogen and can affect the normal functioning of the body, impacting metabolism, growth, development, and reproduction.
Receipts to Become Safer Thanks to the Center for Environmental Health’s Settlements with 163 of the Largest Companies in the United States
CEH’s settlements will protect consumers and workers from hormone disruption, recycling systems from contamination, and spur the creation of a new phenol-additive free receipt paper Contact: Joanna Lee, joanna@ceh.org OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — This week, the nonprofit watchdog the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) announced legally binding settlements with 163 of the largest retailers, manufacturers, and distributors of receipt paper in the United States for exposing consumers and workers to...
You Shouldn't Have to Risk Your Health to Care for Your Hair: Tell Sally Beauty to Get Cancer-Causing Chemicals Out of Its Products
You shouldn’t have to risk your health to care for your hair. No one should. But Toxic-Free Future’s new analysis of 577 Sally Beauty hair products marketed to Black and brown women found more than one in six of these Sally Beauty products contained chemicals linked to cancer and other serious health problems! That’s why we’re teaming up with Toxic-Free Future to ask Sally Beauty to remove cancer-causing formaldehyde chemicals and siloxanes from these products. Everyone deserves safe products.
In Memory of Eric Somers, Longtime Attorney and Counsel for CEH
On March 27, the Center for Environmental Health’s longtime attorney Eric Somers tragically passed away in a skiing accident in Alaska. He was 63 years old. CEH has held a nearly 30-year partnership with Eric’s firm, the Lexington Law Group (LLG) that continues to this day. Over the course of the last few decades, LLG has represented CEH in hundreds of its legal actions to enforce California’s consumer health and safety law, Proposition 65.
CEH Achieves 15 Legal Agreements with Companies who Failed to Report Billions of Pounds of Imported Chemicals
Contact: Emily DiFrisco, [email protected] OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA– Today, the nonprofit watchdog the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) announced the completion of its enforcement against companies that failed to report chemical imports to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in violation of federal chemical safety law.
This National Sunscreen Day, Make EltaMD Safer
We found the following SPF products contained levels of benzophenone that exceeded the threshold and should be avoided until further notice: 1. Biore UV Weightless Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 50 Sunscreen 2. Mario Badescu Oil Free Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen 3. Chanel UV Essential Protection Globale Complete UV Protection Sunscreen 4. Sun Bum Daily Body Sunscreen Moisturizing Lotion 5. Sol de Janeiro Rio Radiance SPF 50 Body Oil 6.
It's Home Depot's Annual Shareholder Meeting: Tell the Company to Ban PVC Plastic
It was only three years ago that train cars containing more than 100,000 gallons of vinyl chloride and PVC plastic derailed and were subsequently burned, setting off a major environmental health disaster that contaminated East Palestine, Ohio. Three years later, residents are still getting sick from toxic fallout related to the derailment.
The Hidden Costs of Nicotine Products
Walk down almost any city street, beach, or park, and you’ll see them: cigarette butts scattered along the curb, tucked into sidewalk cracks, or washed up along shorelines — 4.5 trillion of them. They’re now so common they’ve become nearly invisible. But that ubiquity masks a growing environmental crisis—one that has only intensified as nicotine products evolve. For decades, cigarette butts have been the most littered item in the world.
Is Port Arthur’s Refinery Explosion a Harbinger of Catastrophes to Come?
An explosion and fire at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas sent smoke plumes billowing into the sky on Tuesday, March 24. Police ordered several nearby neighborhoods to shelter-in-place. Thankfully, no one was killed this time.
California Advances Protein Safety Bill Targeting Heavy Metal Contamination
Contact: Emily DiFrisco, [email protected] SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – Today California’s Senate Health Committee approved Senate Bill 1033, authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) and sponsored by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), Environmental Working Group, and Consumer Reports. The bill aims to protect consumers by requiring testing and disclosure of heavy metals in protein products sold in California.