By Ella Tyler The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency this week because the EPA refused the group’s request that the agency regulate jewelry made with lead, particularly children’s and toy jewelry.
By Ella Tyler “Texas has some of the most progressive laws in the country about pesticides in schools, but not many parents know about these laws,” laments Charlotte Wells, executive director of Texans for Alternatives to Pesticides.
Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck, John Sullivan of the Sealy Center for Public Health and Medicine and Bryan Parras of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services were sent to Louisiana to meet with community leaders to find out how the National Institute for Environmental Health could collaborate with local groups.