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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
Partnership call: Advancing Risk Assessment: Progress and Ongoing Obstacles
4/26/12: MP3 recording available: CHE Cafe call: Designing Healthy Communities: a conversation with Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE Alaska call: Little Changes: A Discussion with Author Kristi Marsh on How to Avoid Chemicals in Food and Everyday Products:
May 30, 2012
CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health and CHE EMF working groups call: EMF and Reproductive Health Risks:
May 21, 2012
Cumulative Impacts Working Group Strategic Meeting:
May 22, 2012
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Cardiovascular Disease: Newsfeed
16 May Air pollution limits at Beijing Olympics eased heart burden. The Beijing Olympics were a powerful laboratory for showing how improvements in air pollution improve cardiovascular health. 10 May Radiation risks: Raiders of the lost archive. Fearful of a nuclear attack in the 1950s, the Soviet Union wanted to understand how radiation causes diseases such as cancer. Massive secret animal experiments were conducted, with scientists carefully recording their findings. Now, researchers hope to save these and other archives in the US, Europe, and Japan, hoping they could answer modern-day questions about the dangers of radiation. 10 May Secondhand smoke a clear health hazard to kids. One out of five pregnant women will continue to smoke, and thousands of babies are brought home to a smoke-filled environment. Not smoking is one of the greatest gifts parents can give to their children, for their own health and most definitely for the health of their children. 6 May Getting arsenic out of our water. New Hampshire's groundwater contains a number of contaminants that are not good for our health. Some, like arsenic, are naturally occurring and have health effects that are every bit as concerning as those associated with exposure to man-made substances. 4 May Smog-eating tiles gobble up air pollution. Can the roof of your house help you breathe easier by reducing the amount of harmful pollutants from urban air? Yes, claims the vice president of technology at Boreal Roofing, a U.S. company that has introduced a line of roof tiles that they say have pollution-busting properties. 3 May Electrical pollution: Are we being poisoned? Fueled in part by studies that show children exposed to heavy levels of electromagnetic fields have a greater chance of developing leukemia, several countries in the European Union have established strict safety thresholds ? limits far below what's commonplace in the United States. 28 Apr Quakers vs. PNC on mountaintop coal removal. Quakers don?t mess around. William Penn (a Quaker) wasn?t messing around when he founded the state of Pennsylvania in 1681, and Quakers aren?t messing around today as they get ready to walk across the state to protest PNC Bank?s financing of mountaintop removal coal mining. 28 Apr Suffolk?s air quality grade: F. Even though smog levels in Suffolk improved slightly from last year, the American Lung Association still gives Suffolk a failing grade in air quality in its 2012 State of the Air Report. 27 Apr Hess settlement helps clear the air at Port Reading refinery. Hess will spend $45 million on pollution controls at its petroleum refinery in Port Reading, and pay $850,000 in penalties as part of a settlement with the state and federal governments over hazardous emissions. 27 Apr California weighs tobacco tax hike to fund research. Thanks to the unhealthy habits of some of the state's residents, California voters have an opportunity on 5 June to make their home one of the world's biggest supporters of cancer research. 27 Apr No on Prop. 29. From our perspective, this initiative takes perfectly good tax money and misspends it; we'd rather see an alternative proposal that hikes the cigarette tax but spends the money more wisely. We recommend a no vote on Proposition 29. 25 Apr Pollution report: More Americans breathing easier. While dangerous pollutants still threaten the health of millions of Americans, the United States has made great strides in clearing the air, according to the American Lung Association's State of the Air 2012 report. 25 Apr America's 10 most polluted cities. The U.S. has significantly reduced its air pollution, but there's still a lot of work to be done. These 10 cities, including Bakersfield and Hanford, California, had the highest levels of year-round particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association's 2012 rankings. 25 Apr Progress has been made, but pollutants are still fouling our air. Riverside County is the second smoggiest place in the nation, receiving straight ?Fs? in a report released today. |