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• April 18, 2008
  - Hear Dr. Kate Mahaffey speak about methylmercury toxicity with a focus on women and children: May 1
  - Free webinar: Reconnecting Kids With Nature for Health Benefits!  April 22
  - Free webinar: Healthy Schools Foster Effective Learning Environments -- April 23
  - CANCELLATIO: AAIDD Research and Science Teleconference; Tuesday May 6
  - Position announcement: Senior Study Site Manager for the National Institue of Health's National Children's Study; New Castle County, DE
  - Sign the petition for toxin-free baby bottles!
  - Contact Congress to keep the Phthalates Ban!
  - National Toxicology Program cites fears on Bisphenol A in plastics
  - State of the Evidence 2008: the connection between breast cancer and the enviroment
  - All our shades of green: discovering Northwest environmentalists of color
  - New environmental health blogs
  
  
• April 7, 2008
  - This week is National Public Health Week!
  - AAIDD's next Environmental Health Teleconference is tomorrow!
  - National Healthy Schools Day: April 28
  - Upcoming event: Fourth National Integrity in Science Conference; July 11, 2008
  - Position announcement: Advisor on Sustainable Development and Environmental Health; Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  - Position announcement: Director of Communications, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay; Annapolis, MD
  - EPA drops the ball on proteting children from dangerous chemicals
  - The Children's Safe Product Act is now law in Washington State!
  - CDC's Natinoal Environmental Public Health Tracking Program: Your participation requested!
  
  
• March 24, 2008
  - "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" PBS documentary to air this week
  - Upcoming event: creating healthier school environments - a proactive approach to improve your indoor environment: March 28; King of Prussia, PA
  - Upcoming event: Environmental Health Nursing Conference: April 11 - 12, Bayside, CA
  - Upcoming event: EPA Science Forum 2008 Innovative Technologies - Key to Enviromental and Economic Progress: May 20 - 22; Washington, D.C.
  - Free Citizen Science Seminars from the Schuykill Center for Environmental Education; Philadelphia, PA
  - Take Action: Tell EPA to reject cause marketing on toxic pesticides
  - Second Annual Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Intergenerational Contest
  - Position announcement: Global Warming Campaign Organizer; Annapolis, MD
  - Position announcement: ANA Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
  - New tool from the CEHN: Children's Environmental Health Article of the Month
  - Host a Green Cleaning Party!
  - Why is puberty happening earlier? Article in the Toronto Sun
  
  
• March 14, 2008
  - A big "thank you" for your responses to the EnviRN Survey! 
  - Environmental Health Nursing Writers' Retreat: Application deadline extended to April 1
  - Environmental Signaling in Urban Ecosystems Symposium: April 13-16; New Orleans, LA
  - Environmental health and disaster preparedness conference: April 15; Seattle, WA
  - Call for manuscripts for AAOHN
  - Scholarship available for CleanMed 2008 conference
  - NIH Collaborates with EPA to improve the safety testing of chemicals
  - The Healthy Schools Campaign
  - Blog post on green hospitals: Please post comments!
  
  
• February 29, 2008
  - Boxer and Clinton Call on EPA to Maintain Child Health Protections in Controlling Cancer Risks: Current EPA Proposal Weakens Safeguards for Children
  - Consumers' concern about toy safety causes some manufacturers to ban phthalates from their products
  - U.S. Moving Toward Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants
  - Popular home remedies contain lead
  - Study Shows Emergence of Methylmercury Toxicity Long After Perinatal Exposure in Mice
  - Environmental agents and neurodevelopmental disorders: scientific consensus statement
  - CleanMed 2008, the Global Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Health Care: May 20-22; Pittsburgh, PA
  - The American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) upcoming teleconference: March 11
  - Position announcement: Executive Director, Washington Toxics Coalition; Seattle, WA
  - Position announcement: Community Organizer, Center for Health, Enviornment and Justice: Florida
  - View slideshow about sustainable food
  
  
• February 12, 2008
  - Reminder: Please complete the EnviRN Survey
  - Now accepting applications for the Environmental Health Nursing Writers' Retreat
  - National Library of Medicine Resource Update/TOXMAP: New Health Data, Roads
  - Paid summer internships in Environmental Health: the U.S. Public Health Service COSTEP Program
  - Position announcements: Urban Development/4-H Educator and West Nile Virus Program Educator (Pennsylvania)
  - Reclaiming Our Healthy Future Conference, March 14-16, UC Berkeley
  - EPA Webinar: Evaluating Fish Consumption Guidelines: A Qualitative and Quantitative Approach for High Risk Ethnic Groups: April 15
  
  

• February 5, 2008
  - Perspectives in Global Health Event: February 8, Baltimore, MD
  - Fertility and the environment: Research update from CHE
  - Building capacity to address environmental health issues during pregnancy: grants awarded by EPA
  - Baby toiletries linked to chemical risk
  - Turn it to the left!  Protecting children from noise-induced hearing loss
  - Where do the children play?  New PBS documentary
  - Environmental health summer undergraduate internship opportunity
  - Raising awareness of nurses' health: survey results discussed in Environmental Health Perspectives
  

• January 29, 2008
  - Call for applications: Mesa Refuge Writers' Retreat
  - Integrated Pest Management in Maryland hospitals: Free seminar February 12
  - Implementing Integrated Pest Management in multi-family housing: Training on February 12
  - Save the date: a forum on engaging minorities in our watershed and increasing minority participation in the enviornment: June 12
  - Call for applications: The South Texas Environmental Education and Research (STEER) program
  - Going green, one shade at a time: article in ADVANCE for Nurses
  - Waiter, there's mercury in my fish!  Online gudie helps consumers make healthy choices
  - Childhood seizures associated with the use of camphor products
  - Free student access to Members Only section of NursingWorld.org
  - Register online to eliminate unsolicited catalogs from your mailbox
  

• January 15, 2008
  - The Falling Age of Puberty with Sandra Steingraber: January 18
  - Environmental Action Day: February 18
  - Meeting announcement from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Let's Go Outside for Health - Health Professionals' Roundup Meeting on February 29
  - 2008 Advanced Public Policy Institute for Health Care Professionals (APPI): March 10 - 14
  - The seven deadly sins of environmental epidemiology and the virtues of precaution
  - Position announcement: Toxics Advocate, Environment America (Washington, D.C.)
  - Position announcement: Organizing Director, Food & Water Watch (Washington, D.C.)