4/12/08
How much lead is in that old computer you want to throw away?
Did you ever stop to wonder how much harm all of your old electronic equipment could be causing the environment? CHEJ’s Green Flags program students already know the answer & they’re doing something about it. Click here to read the release and visit our Green Flags section to start an electronics recycling event in your community: link to release will go here.

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How much toxin will you let your child be exposed to?
If you’re in a New York City school – or one of many schools in America – according to officials, the answer is ‘safe’ levels. IS there a safe level of toxins to which our children should be exposed? CHEJ doesn’t think so. Read the latest child scare here Read the latest child scare here and visit the Child Proofing Our Communities program page to learn what you need to know about so called safe levels of toxins your children are exposed to every day!
Et tu Bloomberg?:
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CHEJ’s Green Flag Program Featured as One of the 50 Simple things YOU Can Do to Save the Earth!
Author John Javna, led by his children, entirely redid his popular 1990s book by the same name. Click here to check out the book’s website and/or purchase the book 50simplethings.com and turn to chapter 28 to read about how CHEJ can teach YOUR children to save our earth!

Lead found in vinyl diaper bags, changing pads
The Illinois attorney general's office said Tuesday it would ask major retailers to pull more baby products off the shelves due to high levels of lead.
[Read the full story in the Daily Herald:]

SPARKED BY PUBLIC OUTCRY FROM CONCERNED PARENTS AND CONSUMERS, U.S. SENATE PASSES GROUND-BREAKING HARM PREVENTION IMPROVMENTS AND STRENGTHENS CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION SAFEGUARDS.
It’s been a long road, but following all of last year’s scares about lead in toys, congressional action has finally happened and is moving forward – including the approval of Senator Feinstein’s amendment banning six toxic phthalates from children’s toys.
[Read the full story in the Washington Post:]

3/04/08
Rhode Island state legislators get it!
Prevent toxic harm by NOT allowing schools to be located on toxic property. For years, CHEJ & our Child Proofing Our Communities program have been hard at work to educate lawmakers and the public to the fact that 45 states currently do not have legislation preventing schools from being located on or near toxic waste sites.
[For the article on RI’s actions, click here:]
[For more information on school siting guidelines and facts, click here:]

3/03/08
Shouldn’t preventing harm wherever our children are always be the guide?
CHEJ & our state partners think so. Yet, some Jacksonville, Florida school & city officials disagree.
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1/25/08
30 years after Love Canal, Western New York’s natural habitats finally receive settlement money from contaminating chemical companies.
Read Lois Gibbs’ statement on the settlement distribution:
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