Just Released! 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.

New Study on 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, NIRS, CEC and CWVNW on December 2nd. 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. The site of the country's only failed commercial reprocessing facility; these findings have national implications for proposed reprocessing facilities and reactors. Download Report, News Release and Fact Sheets

Another City Passes Green Purchasing Policy
Minneapolis passed a comprehensive Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policy. It is a policy that has been years in the making, initiated by work with Preventing Harm MN and the CHEJ. Click here to read the policy.

CHEJ Wins National Award.
CHEJ won the Business Ethics Network's BENNY Award for our PVC Consumer Campaign. This is the 2nd year in a row CHEJ won this distinguished award. Read more: BENNY AWARD

Not a Mega Dump: We Want a Recycling Facility
CHEJ recently completed our first Zeroing Out Waste Visioning Meetings in NC. Partnering with BREDL and residents from seven counties, we held meetings to answer the question “If not this nasty polluting mega-dump company setting up business in your county, then what type of business do you want?” Many great ideas for sustainable economic development were raised and groups are moving to the next stage of planning.

On the 30th Anniversary of Love Canal, Health Agency Does Deeply Flawed Study.
Lois Gibbs and other survivors discussed the lessons learned from the Love Canal toxic tragedy at national events in Niagara Falls on August 1, 2008. CHEJ issued a new report: NYS Health Department's Final Whitewash. View the report, news release and much more Click Here

How many states do you think won’t let a school be located on a toxic site?
The answer, shockingly, is just seven states! View CNN August 2008 coverage of this unbelievable reality. Thirty years after the closing of the 99th Street School, located next to the Love Canal 20,000 ton toxic waste site, schools are still being sited near toxic sites. Click Here.

Do you have a chemically laden, potentially harmful shower curtain hanging in your bathroom?
Chances are you do. Check out our new report: Volatile Vinyl The New Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell issued in June, 2008. Watch the slide show, find out safer purchase options and much more Click Here

Why would anyone put a school next to a chemical site?
CHEJ has been asking that question since we were launched in 1981. Yet, 30 years after Love Canal and the 99th Street School literally oozed contaminants, the practice continues.

Read the latest in a series of articles by The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Graybell

THIS is why CHEJ is here!
30 years after the Love Canal battle to get state and federal government to realize, to care and to act on the harm coming to families living in the Love Canal community, our federal government seems no better prepared to help prevent harm from toxic dangers to our families.

Read the stunning piece from Associated Press for complete details

 

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In the News

12/3/08
Nuclear Cleanup Costs
Buffalo News, AP
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8/5/08
Unsafe Cleanups
Buffalo News
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3/1/08
Non-Toxic Tots
Washington Post
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2/15/08
Toy companies not cooking with vinyl
NPR Marketplace Radio
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2/12/08
Protests Spur Stores to Seek Substitute for Vinyl in Toys
The Wall Street Journal
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12/17/07
Georgia Gulf hit with EPA fine
Atlanta Business Chronicle
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12/13/07
Sears, Kmart to remove products with polyvinyl chloride
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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