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Environmental Health
Environmental Health News
Quick Access to breaking stories from around the world.
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the US and its content is free online.
Environmental Defence
We have a more than 20 year history of protecting people and the environment. You can also visit PollutionWatch, your source for information about pollutants that facilities release and transfer in your community.
The Lung Association
C.A.N. DO- The movement for clean air now
Greenpeace International is working to Eliminate toxic chemicals.
MCS-CanadianSources Support Group
MCS-CanadianSources provides support, information and resource exchange for those living and coping with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), Environmental Illness (EI), or Chemical Injury (CI).
Children's Environmental Health
Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and the Environment
The Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment (CPCHE) is an affiliation of organizations working together to protect children's health from environmental contaminants.
Canadian Institute of Child Health
Healthy Spaces for Healthy Development is a web site that increases awareness of children's exposure to potential contaminants in the areas where children grow, learn and play. You will find reliable, up-to-date information that allows you to make informed decisions about how to create safe and healthy spaces for young children. (The web site is available in french and english.)
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is an international organization created by Canada, Mexico and the United States under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The CEC was established to address regional environmental concerns, help prevent potential trade and environmental conflicts, and to promote the effective enforcement of environmental law. The CEC has published the following reports pertaining to children's environmental health:Children's Health and the Environment in North America: A First Report on Available Indicators and Measures and Toxic Chemicals and Children's Health in North America
Body Burden
Environmental Working Group
Body Burden- The pollution in people -- EWG has conducted three studies on the pollution inside people. For the first study, blood and urine from nine people were tested for 210 chemicals that occur in consumer products and industrial pollution. The second study was a benchmark investigation of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides in the umbilical cord blood of ten newborns. The latest study examined the pollution inside mothers and daughters.
The World Wildlife Fund (UK)
Contaminated Britain -- As part of their Chemicals and Health Campaign, WWF UK has conducted five major surveys to explore which hazardous man-made chemicals are contaminating our bodies and to what extent.
Northwest Environment Watch/Sightline Institute
Pollution and Toxics Research
Cascadia Scorecard: Pollution Indicator -- NEW researchers conducted a study of breastmilk to determine the extent to which persistent chemicals are contaminating northwesterners. The breast milk of forty mothers from British Columbia, Montana, Oregon, and Washington were analyzed for PBDEs and PCBs.
Commonweal
Visit Commonweal's Biomonitoring Resource Centre and read their report Taking It All In — Documenting Chemical Pollution in Californians Through Biomonitoring, the first study of its kind that measures the chemical pollution in a cross-section of Californians.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
The Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals provides an ongoing assessment of the exposure of the U.S. population to chemicals in the environment.
Statistics Canada
The Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) is a national survey that will collect information from Canadians about their general health and health habits. The Survey will include a biomonitoring component to assess the Canadian population's exposure to environmental contaminants. Survey results are expected to be available in 2009.
Safe Products
Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia
A Canadian Guide to Less Toxic Products
Grassroots
Online store with access to more than 750 environmentally-sustainable products, including non-toxic household cleaners, women’s products and laundry products.
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
Skin Deep- News about the safety of popular health and beauty brands
Clean Production Action
Clean Production is a way of designing products and manufacturing processes in harmony with natural ecological cycles. It aims to eliminate toxic wastes and inputs and promotes the sustainable use of renewable energy and materials. Our mission is to partner with organizations to hasten this transition.
Chemical Regulation
Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA)
CELA is a non-profit, public interest organization established in 1970 to use existing laws to protect the environment and to advocate environmental law reforms. CELA's Pollution and Health core program area is dedicated to advocating for the protection of human health, particularly child health, from environmental toxins.
CEPA Environmental Registry
The CEPA Environmental Registry is a comprehensive source of public information relating to activities under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999).