6/30/08
Wouldn’t YOU want to know?

When CHEJ released its Volatile Vinyl shower curtain report earlier this month, most news outlets across the country were glad to alert their constituents about potential harm from the product. A few, however, chose to find fault, missing the key point: PREVENT HARM WHENEVER A SAFER ALTERNATIVE EXISTS – IF ANY THREAT IS POSSIBLE! Read the New York Times’ take on the report release: Click Here

6/20/08
On the heals of Love Canal’s 30th anniversary, which gave birth to Superfund, New Jersey is just SUPER (not!) in unremediated Superfund sites according to the U.S.EPA.

NJ’s problem is just the tip of the iceberg according to a new report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General. Read more about New Jersey’s 38 unremediated Superfund sites and what the government says out to be done about it in the New Brunswick Home Tribune article: Click Here

6/12/08
Do you have a chemically laden, potentially harmful shower curtain hanging in YOUR bathroom?

Chances are you do. Check out CHEJ’s newest report: Volatile Vinyl The New Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell & watch the slide show, find out safer purchase options and much more:Click Here

Watch the Massachusetts local story:
Watch the NYC WCBS story from the press conference:
Read the U.S. News & World Report piece:
See ABC’s coverage of the story:

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6/11/08
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