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...
Jul 1, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition, Top 10 Projects
Ann Blake, PhD, Founder and Principal of Environmental & Public Health Consulting, along with Mark Rossi, co-director of Clean Production Action, co-authored the Plastics Scorecard V1.0: Evaluating the Chemical Footprint of Plastics, published on July 1, 2014. The...
Jun 20, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition, Key Contribution
Environmental & Public Health Consulting has completed a report covering incineration and non-incineration options for the treatment of residential pharmaceutical waste. The City and County of San Francisco, its neighboring counties and local government entities...
Jun 20, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition, Top 10 Projects
Cal/EPA DTSC Panel Ann Blake has been reappointed to the Green Ribbon Science Panel, created by AB 1879, the statute that created the Safer Consumer Products program. The 2014 Green Ribbon Science Panel has 15 members consisting of reappointed members from the first...
Mar 6, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition
Women’s Voices for the Earth has just posted my guest blog on mercury-containing skin whiteners. Read, enjoy, and don’t forget to check out WVE’s amazing work and support...
Dec 17, 2013 | Chemicals and Just Transition
Why California is Leading the Way on Chemical Policy Reform I was recently invited to write for GreenBiz.com’s The Right Chemistry Blog. I chose to focus on the economic opportunity for California inherent in the Safer Consumer Product regulations. By Ann...
