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Fish advisory issued today for Prado Lake in San Bernardino County provides safe eating advice for black bass species, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, sunfish species, and Threadfin Shad.
Mar 29, 2022, Program: Fish
OEHHA, the City of Elk Grove and a team of hydrologists examined the potential environmental risks associated with the use of dry wells. Infiltration of stormwater runoff through dry wells with pretreatment may pose little risk to groundwater quality.
Mar 24, 2022, Program: Ecotoxicology
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is recommending that the State Water Resources Control Board set the notification level for perfluorohexane sulfonic acid at the lowest level at which it can be reliably detected in drinking water using currently available and appropriate technologies.
Mar 17, 2022, Program: Water
Information on how CalEnviroscreen uses pollution burden and population characteristics to calculate the CalEnviroscreen score.
Mar 9, 2022, Program: CalEnviroScreen
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has selected bisphenol S (BPS) for the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee review for possible listing under Proposition 65 and is soliciting information relevant to the assessment of its reproductive toxicity.
Mar 4, 2022, Program: Proposition 65
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) (CAS RN 335-67-1) as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65). This action is being proposed pursuant to the “Authoritative Bodies” listing mechanism.
Feb 25, 2022, Program: Proposition 65
The current Proposition 65 list is dated December 29, 2023.
Feb 25, 2022, Program: Proposition 65
This document contains health risk information on regulated drinking water contaminants to assist public water systems in preparing these reports. NEW for the 2022 Report: New in this document are an updated Public Health Goal (PHG) for 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) and newly established PHGs for the trihalomethanes bromodichloromethane, bromoform, chloroform, and dibromochloromethane.
Feb 4, 2022, Program: Water
OEHHA announces the release of its second report on the benefits and impacts of the state’s greenhouse gas emission limits near California’s vulnerable communities “Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emission Limits Within Disadvantaged Communities: Progress Toward Reducing Inequities”. This report has been prepared pursuant to a directive from the Governor issued in December 2015.
Feb 3, 2022, Program: Environmental Justice
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has selected bisphenol A (BPA) for the Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC)’s review for possible listing under Proposition 65.
Jan 28, 2022, Program: Proposition 65