CHEJ’s Hiring in NY!

CHEJ is seeking a part-time campaign organizer for a new New York State campaign to green schools inside and out. Read the job notice.

Spokesman Review: Superfund Outcry Grows Louder

More than 70 grass-roots groups from around the nation have joined Silver Valley activists in asking the Obama administration for new ways of dealing with pollution from cleanup of the Bunker Hill Superfund site in North Idaho. Read about CHEJ’s work with the Bunker Hill community in the Spokane Spokesman-Review

CHEJ’s Hiring! Childrens Health Campaign Organizer

CHEJ is seeking a campaign organizer for our Childproofing Our Communities Campaign (CPOC) in our Falls Church, VA office. The campaign works to protect children from exposure to environmental health hazards through innovative trainings, programs and organizing assistance. Read the job announcement.

In the News: CHEJ Pushes NY State Towards Green Purchasing Policies

The Journal News reports on CHEJ’s efforts to harness the buying power of the State of New York to shift the consumer market to non-toxic products. The New York State Purchasing Committee is currently considering placing 85 chemicals on a Chemical Avoidance List. Full Article.

Over the past month, toxic chemicals in PVC’s lifecycle, have made headlines coast to coast:

• A new study by EWG found cleaning products, many of which are used to maintain vinyl flooring in schools, can contaminate the air inside schools with harmful chemicals.

• The American Medical Association came out with a new policy on endocrine disrupting chemicals, which are released by PVC products found in our nation’s schools.

• Robert DeNiro, stars in a new movie where he plays a man “who spent his entire life breathing in toxic fumes at a plant that manufactured PVC coating for telephone wires.”

• PVC fenceline communities breathed a sigh of relief, after they won an agreement from EPA, to finally start regulating air pollution from PVC chemical plants.

• The vinyl chemical industry, backed by Exxon Mobil, has announced yet another “grassroots” (astroturfing) association – the Flexible Vinyl Alliance.

• A new study by EWG found minority babies are born pre-polluted with Dioxins, chemicals released by PVC’s toxic lifecycle.

What a month! We’re looking forward to 2010.

Dangerous Money Sinkhole: Nuclear Power
Community leaders gathered in Scottsboro, Alabama with CHEJ recently to craft a publicity plan that will enhance their campaign against the TVA proposed Bellefonte nuclear reactor. Two message frames were selected: 1) Danger - TVA has a responsibility to put safety first. 2) Money - TVA has wasted our time and taxpayer dollars. The Bellefonte Efficiency & Sustainability Team will be launching a series of ads and media events to spread the word. Their first action is a Mother Goose Pond Tea Party at the TVA's hearing at the Goose Pond Civic Center. Check out the great poster. If your community is fighting a proposed reactor and wants to hold a Messaging and Publicity Meeting, contact CHEJ at anne@chej.org

Click here for the poster!

New PVC-Free Schools Campaign Fact-Sheets
CHEJ is kicking off a brand new PVC-free schools campaign to encourage schools to ditch the poison plastic in favor of safer alternatives. We need your help to make it a success! We’ve created a series of new PVC-free schools fact-sheets to help educate parents, students and decision-makers on the dangers of PVC plastic.
Click here to download the new fact-sheets!

CHEJ’s new Safe School Siting Toolkit
Check out the Safe School Siting Toolkit which includes fact sheets, model policies and everything you need to protect children’s health and pass a Safe School Siting policy in your community. Click here for the toolkit.

CHEJ's Pricing Pollution Tool Kit
What are the real costs of environmental damage? What are the health costs of using chemicals? Check out CHEJ's Pricing Pollution: True Cost Environmental Tool Kit and see how organizations are uncovering the true costs of toxic chemicals and hazardous technologies. View Fact Sheets by experts on the powerful tool of precautionary economic analysis and 16 studies which reveal the real costs of environmental hazards.

PVC-Free Back-to-School Guide
Need help keeping poison plastics off of your back to school shopping list? The Back-to-School Guide to PVC-Free School Supplies helps you make smarter, healthier shopping choices for a toxic-free future. Find out about school supplies made out of polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl) plastics and learn about safe alternatives, download the guide here.

CHEJ's New Media & Messaging Tool Kit
Struggling to make your voice heard over industry’s public relations consultants? Trying to get your side of the story covered by the newspapers? Check out the Media & Messaging Tool Kit of fact sheets, sample news releases and more. Learn all the tips and tricks to help your group compete with the corporate media machine. Click here to view the Tool Kit..

Climate Change & Corporate Bailouts Threaten Superfund
A CHEJ study, Superfund: In the Eye of the Storm, reveals corporate bailouts and climate change-related hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding are damaging Superfund toxic waste sites and burdening the financially ailing Federal Superfund. Click here to see the Report and News Release.

Green Purchasing Tool Kit
Find out the best local and state green purchasing programs promoting environmentally-friendly products. CHEJ's Green Purchasing Tool Kit includes model policies, resources and fact sheets on How to Pass a Green Purchasing Policy. From start to finish, this Took Kit helps you support policies to green the marketplace and promote healthy, safe products. Click here.

Real Costs of Nuclear Waste Cleanup
Economists and scientists revealed the true costs of nuclear waste cleanup in a ground-breaking state-funded study released by CHEJ and other groups. The Real Costs of Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste has startling new information on the long-term consequences of leaving buried nuclear waste onsite—it can cost $27 billion or more while endangering public health for thousands of years. The first-ever study looks at the West Valley site in NY comparing the costs of digging up waste versus leaving buried waste onsite for 1,000 years and finds buried waste is both high risk and very expensive. Download Report, News Release and Fact Sheets

 

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Federal Health Agency Deeply Flawed
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Getting to the Bottom of Plastic Bottle Risks
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9/26/09
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9/17/09
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