Walmart Tackling Toxic Chemicals-Will Their Suppliers Listen?
By Mike Schade, Mind The Store Campaign Director Yesterday, Walmart announced a major update to their corporate chemicals policy with the release of their new Sustainable Chemistry Implementation...
View ArticleChildhood Leukemia Associated With Traffic
Studies reviewed by the CDC suggest “that childhood leukemia is associated with residential traffic exposure during the postnatal period, but not during the prenatal period. Read more.
View ArticleGranted Right To Know -Oil Trains Through Your Community
This Order is issued to all railroad carriers that transport in a single train in commerce within the United States, 1,000,000 gallons or more of UN 1267, Petroleum crude oil, Class 3,[1] sourced from...
View ArticleBoard of Directors Announce Lois Gibbs Shifting Energy To Field
The Board of Directors of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) is pleased to s, our founder and Executive Director, has accepted the opportunity to shift the focus of her work to our...
View ArticleGina McCarthy Where Are You?
In my 35 years of working in the field, beginning with Love Canal, I have never seen such irresponsible behavior by EPA headquarters. Yes, there has been many cases where EPA did not act responsibly...
View ArticleEPA Laws & Regulations Really Don’t Matter
How can ordinary people win justice from an agency that seems to care little about their own laws and regulations? Take for example the recent report that the hazardous waste incinerator (WTI) in East...
View ArticleEPA Can Map Environmental Justice Communities – Can They Stop The Poisoning?
Today we know how to identify Environmental Justice communities but what is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doing to relieve their community burdens? A new mapping tool created by the...
View ArticleI’m Dying of Cancer … It Was Preventable
Mary has terminal lung cancer. She never smoked. But what she did do is walk around the local park every morning 24 laps. She believed that she was doing a good thing for her health, getting exercise...
View ArticleWhere In The World Is Gina McCarthy?
Has EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy totally written off oversight and action in contaminated communities and the Superfund program? Is she just turning a deaf ear to the cries for help? McCarthy did...
View ArticleWomen Make The Difference In Action on Climate Change
I just spent the last three days in St. Louis, Missouri with the group, Just Moms STL to help them develop a plan to put pressure on the elected representatives with the power and ability to help move...
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