To keep this bill moving, we need your help to recruit co-sponsors. Since elected officials listen to their constituents, we need you to email your Representative today telling them to co-sponsor.

Click here to ask your US Representative to co-sponsor the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act, H.R. 5820.

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(From www.grist.org) ”Today we explore the cycle of life of this curious creature, the plastic bag, on its migration to its home, the Pacific Ocean,” narrates the deep tones of Jeremy Irons (who lent his voice to Scar in The Lion King, of course).

Despite dangers lurking around every corner — Park Services employees, teacup Yorkies, tree branches, hungry dolphins — the persistent plastic bag finally takes its place in the marine millings of the great plastic herd known as the Pacific Garbage Patch.

The  cinematic jest is the work of environmental nonprofit, Heal the Bay, in its efforts to keep the non-native plastic bag from invading Pacific waters. It’s part of a campaign in support of a bill to ban the bags from California retailers, their primary vector for invading the salty seas.

Watch the awe-inspiring footage captured of this persistent creature here.

Just hover over the “EH Tools” tab at the top of the page or click here!

Over 150 nurses from around the country met in Baltimore last week for the first Our Environment, Our Health Conference sponsored by ANHE and the University of Maryland School of Nursing.  See Dr. Barbara Sattler talk about why nurses should be advocates for environmentally healthy people and the planet.

See what nurses are doing to follow-up words with action! Stop Chemical Chaos

Flier PDF: ANHE Conference Sandra Steingraber

Author of Living Downstream and Having Faith.

…a biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer
in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the
most important health and human rights issue of our time… Read more

Conference Overview

Join us at the first national conference for nurses addressing the relationship between human health and the environment. Learn about the growing movement that is being created by nurses as they “green” their health care institutions, engage in scientific inquiry, integrate environmental health practices into nursing assessments and interventions, and create and support policies that protect human health and the environment.  Come hear about and share in the expanding roles that nurses are taking in the exciting and critical field of environmental health.

For more information and to register go to:

http://nursing.umaryland.edu/events/anhe

Larger flier: Our Enviroment_ Our Health

It is well worth the time!

Full Schedule Available and Registration Now Open

Conference Overview
Join us at the first national conference for nurses addressing the relationship between human health and the environment. Learn about the growing movement that is being created by nurses as they “green” their health care institutions, engage in scientific inquiry, integrate environmental health practices into nursing assessments and interventions, and create and support policies that protect human health and the environment.  Come hear about and share in the expanding roles that nurses are taking in the exciting and critical field of environmental health.   Read more…

When EWG tested the umbilical cord blood of 10 Americans, we found nearly 300 chemicals, including BPA, perchlorate, fire retardants, lead, mercury, and PCBs.

The best way to stop this pre-pollution is to enact the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act, which would require that chemicals be proven safe for children before they can be sold.

Click here to sign our petition. Now is the time for Congress to introduce the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act.

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The Charlotte Brody Award was created in honor of a lifelong advocate for social change. Charlotte Brody, a registered nurse and activist, has spent her life making the world a safer place for people around the globe. She is one of the founders of Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), an international coalition working to make health care more environmentally responsible and sustainable. HCWH has launched campaigns to rid hospitals of mercury thermometers and toxics-leaching IV bags and encouraged hospitals to buy ecologically sound medical supplies, cleaners, building materials and organic food.

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