Apr 10, 2015 | Chemicals and Just Transition, Publications
Dr. Ann Blake of EPHC and Debbie Raphael, Director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, and former Director of Cal/EPA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control, co-authored a piece for the Huffington Post’s World Cancer Day series February 4, 2015. The...
Apr 3, 2015 | Chemicals and Just Transition
EPHC’s Dr. Ann Blake and environmental health colleague and sister alumna Aimee Boulanger are featured in the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Quarterly Winter 2015 issue; both have been deeply involved with Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), a non-profit in Missoula,...
Jan 2, 2015 | Chemicals and Just Transition
California’s Pioneering Ban on Two PBDEs A recent report from the San Francisco Estuary Institute shows a drop in levels of PBDEs, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, utilized as flame retardants since the mid 1970s, in the shorebirds, mussels and fish in San Francisco...
Sep 22, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition
The Linkage Between Chemicals and Climate On the eve of key climate change talks and the day after the world’s biggest environmental protest, it seems apropos to highlight the linkage between chemicals and climate. The Guardian recently published an interesting...
Jul 1, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition, Key Contribution
Ann Blake, PhD of Environmental & Public Health Consulting and Mark Rossi, PhD, co-director of Clean Production Action have co-authored the Plastics Scorecard V1.0: Evaluating the Chemical Footprint of Plastics: The Plastics Scorecard v.1.0 offers the first...
Jul 1, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition
By switching the type of plastic used in its IV bags, Dignity Health care system kept 700,000 pounds of high-concern chemicals — the equivalent in weight of a Boeing 747 airplane — out of the environment, according to BizNGO’s new analysis of plastics, The Plastics...
