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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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Endometriosis: Newsfeed 22 Mar Sunscreen compound linked to endometriosis. Although sunscreens shield the skin from harmful ultraviolet light, they may have a dark side: Exposure to a compound commonly found in the lotions was associated with endometriosis in a small study in people. 26 Feb Nitro and Monsanto: A love-hate relationship. In a lawsuit tentatively settled Friday, residents in and around Nitro, West Virginia, who worked at the Monsanto Chemical Co. will be tested for diseases they might have contracted because of the company. But residents say that despite deaths and other health problems, they are thankful for the jobs. 30 Jan Caffeine may alter women's estrogen levels, study says. Caffeine changes women's estrogen levels and has different effects in Asian and white women, a new study says. 8 Jan Ruling leaves dioxin cleanup out of Monsanto trial. As the trial begins in a major toxic pollution lawsuit against Monsanto Co., jurors won't be allowed to tackle a key issue: Should the company pay to clean up dioxin it allegedly spewed across the city of Nitro? 2 Jan Monsanto jurors must decide if residents of Nitro, West Virginia should be tested for disease. Putnam County jurors chosen to sit in the upcoming case against Monsanto, a former Nitro chemical plant, will have to decide whether thousands of current and former Nitro residents should be periodically tested for disease at the expense of the company. 29 Dec Mediation fails again in West Virginia Monsanto suit. Media outlets reported that several hundred plaintiffs attended a court-ordered mediation Tuesday at a Charleston hotel, but no settlement was reached. An earlier mediation in October also ended without a settlement. 28 Dec Plaintiffs in Monsanto class action attend mediation. During a court-ordered mediation Tuesday, about 300 plaintiffs gathered at the Marriott Hotel in Charleston to see if they could resolve a class action lawsuit against Monsanto -- just one week before a trial against the former Nitro chemical plant is scheduled to begin. 11 Oct NGOs to meet on pollution reduction. The Nigeria-Africa Stockpiles Programme Implementation Network will today organise a stakeholders sensitisation workshop on Community Action to reduce the offloading of persistent organic pollutants into the Lagos Lagoon. 30 Sep New date set for Monsanto trial. Trial date for a class-action lawsuit against chemical company Monsanto has been reset for January. The plaintiffs in the case are thousands of current and former Nitro residents who claim that Monsanto polluted their town during the days when it made the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent Orange at a nearby facility. 30 Sep Toxic chemicals all around us. Scientists have become increasingly worried that even extremely low levels of some environmental contaminants may have significant damaging effects on our bodies?and that fetuses are particularly vulnerable to such assaults. 1 Sep Mercer County judge delays Monsanto trial. The trial for a class-action lawsuit brought by Nitro residents against the Monsanto Co. has been delayed. That was the decision of Mercer County's Derek Swope, the circuit judge the state Supreme Court chose Monday to preside over the Putnam County case. 30 Aug West Virginia county judge to hear Monsanto case. The state Supreme Court appointed Judge Derek Swope on Monday to preside over a case against Monsanto brought on behalf of thousands of current and former Nitro residents who claim their town has been polluted. 9 Apr The toxicity panic. The United States deals with potentially toxic household products in a manner that is so cavalier that it would, in a saner world, be called negligence. 26 Sep Gators used to study water quality. Could pesticides in the state's waters increase a woman's chances of contracting endometriosis or a girl's risk for early onset puberty? Do they affect the size of a man's sex organ? A group of local researchers are studying alligators to find out. |