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…

The “Healthy Retrofits” Project: Avoiding children’s health risks during energy retrofits and home renovations in Ontario, Canada

Presentation to CAPTURING THE MULTIPLE BENEFITS OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY - International Energy Agency - European Energy Agency Roundtable on Health and Well-Being Impacts, Copenhagen, Denmark Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher Canadian Environmental Law Association Download slides: Cooper-IEA-Mtg-Copenhagen

Consultation on Revisions to the Proposed Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) Concentration Limits for Certain Products Regulation

Title: Consultation on Revisions to the Proposed Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) Concentration Limits for Certain Products Regulation Resource Type: Letter, Response to Consultation Content: CELA-Response-VOCs-Products-Consultation # of Pages: 3 Date authored: April 4, 2013 Publication number: 909 Author/s: Kathleen Cooper…

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.

Support needed for continuation of the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study

Title: Support needed for continuation of the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study Resource Type: Letter Content: L-Health-Canada-CHILD-Study # of Pages: 3 Date authored: February 19, 2013 Author/s: Dr. Eric Crighton and Dr. Christine Hampson Author Organization: Sandbox Project…

Early Environmental Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and their Associations with Chronic Disease – Focus on Endocrine Disruption and Obesogens

Part 2 in this series recaps the main findings of the study, summarizes the epigenetic/environmental basis of disease, notes implications of endocrine disruption science, and discusses obesity risk factors in the context of emerging science on chemicals suspected as obesogens and diabetogens