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New CalEnviroScreen 4.0 data dashboard released. The dashboard is an interactive online tool used for filtering and visualizing the latest CalEnviroScreen data. Users can filter CalEnviroScreen 4.0 data by geography (county, city, or legislative district) and by any combination of the results from the 21 indicators. A tutorial video and user guide are available. Also released is the response to public comments on CalEnviroScreen 4.0.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is adopting new Reference Exposure Levels for 1-Bromopropane for use in the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program. Reference Exposure Levels are airborne concentrations of a chemical that are not anticipated to result in adverse noncancer health effects for specified exposure durations in the general population, including sensitive subpopulations. 

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Effective April 21, 2023, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is adding 1,1,1-trichloroethane and leucomalachite green to the list of chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer for purposes of Proposition 65.

Fish advisory for Lauritzen Channel in Richmond inner Harbor.

Fish advisory for San Francisco Bay.

An updated fish advisory issued today for the San Francisco Bay provides safe eating advice for eighteen fish species, including new “do not eat” advice for Mississippi Silverside, Pacific Sardine, and Topsmelt.

Please join OEHHA and the Children’s Environmental Health Center for a virtual symposium series exploring the effects of heat on children and during pregnancy. This highly interactive four-session symposium will cover physiologic considerations for children and pregnancy, strategies to combat health effects in children and during pregnancy, and important considerations for these populations in the development of heat health warning systems.

Advisory for fish taken from Pyramid Lake, a reservoir on Piru Creek near Castaic, California, in the Angeles and Los Padres National Forests, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles.  Advice based on mercury or PCBs.

Updated fish advisory issued today for Pyramid Lake in Los Angeles County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, bullhead species, catfish species, Rainbow Trout, Striped Bass and sunfish species.