Blog: Governments Action to Protect the Great Lakes Basin from toxic chemicals failing

Blog post by John Jackson and Anne Wordsworth on June 18, 2015 The Great Lakes are enjoying an anniversary of sorts. It’s been almost three years since Canada and the United States signed a revised Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement with the…

Regulation of DecaBDE in Imported, Manufactured Products

Title: Regulation of DecaBDE in Imported, Manufactured Products Resource Type: Letter, Response to Consultation Content: deca-BDE-ProhibitionsReg-CELA-DSF-EcoJ-ED # of Pages: 4 Date authored: June 17, 2015 Author/s: Kathleen Cooper, Lisa Gue, Elaine MacDonald, Maggie MacDonald Author Organization: Canadian Environmental Law Association,…

Proposed Risk Management Instrument for Products Containing Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)

Title: Response to “Consultation Document on the Proposed Risk Management Instrument for Products Containing Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)” Resource Type: Letter, Response to Consultation Content: CELA-Response-PBDEs-Products # of Pages: 5 Date authored: November 28, 2013 Publication number: 962 Author/s: Kathleen…

Playing on Poisons Harmful Flame Retardants in Children’s Furniture

Title: Playing on Poisons Harmful Flame Retardants in Children's Furniture Resource Type: Report Content: Playing-on-Poisons_0 # of Pages: 19 Date authored: November 2013 Author/s: Caroline Cox and Judy Levin Author Organization: Center for Environmental Health (Oakland and New York) and…

Response to Consultation Document for Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers

Title: Response to Consultation Document for Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers Resource Type: Letter, Response to Consultation Content:CELA-Response-PBDEs-RM-Consultation # of Pages: 3 Date authored: April 5, 2013 Publication number: 910 Author/s: Kathleen Cooper Author Organization: Canadian Environmental Law Association

Early Environmental Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and their Associations with Chronic Disease – Policy Implications

Part 3 in this series summarizes the challenges that exist in evaluating scientific evidence of associations between chemical exposures and health outcomes, particularly for endocrine disrupting chemicals and related challenges to existing regulatory approaches.