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Human health impacts (heat, wildfire smoke and air quality) webinar: Bridging Science and Action. The sixth in the series, co-convened with the California Department of Public Health and the California Air Resources Board, addresses the impacts of heat, wildfire smoke and changes in air quality on Californians’ health, and efforts underway to address them.
Aug 7, 2024, Program: Climate Change
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is hosting a series of webinars as part of its efforts to track and report on climate change and its impacts on California. OEHHA launched the webinar series with a symposium held on January 24, 2024.
Aug 6, 2024, Program: Climate Change
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is announcing the availability of a draft document for review by the Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants. This draft summarizes the carcinogenicity data and presents the derivation of a cancer inhalation unit risk factor (IUR) for isoprene, as part of the Air Toxics Hot Spots program. Cancer IURs are used to estimate lifetime cancer risks associated with inhalation exposure to a carcinogen.
Jul 17, 2024, Program: Air
This webinar is the fifth in the series, co-convened with the Ocean Protection Council. It will address the impacts of climate change on California’s oceans and coasts, and efforts underway to address them.
Jul 12, 2024, Program: Climate Change
Explore the indicators that show how climate change is affecting California. Updates to plain language summaries of multiple indicators published in the 2022 Indicators of Climate Change in California report are now available.
Jul 1, 2024, Program: Climate Change
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment proposes to adopt a Proposition 65 No Significant Risk Level for titanium dioxide (airborne, unbound particles of respirable size) by amending Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 25705(c)(2).
Jun 24, 2024, Program: Proposition 65
A list of registered medical supervisors in the biomonitoring program who measure cholinesterase activity in blood samples collected from agricultural workers who regularly handle category I and II organophosphate and carbamate pesticides.
Jun 20, 2024, Program: Pesticides
Today, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a fish consumption advisory for Gene Wash Reservoir, located near the California-Arizona border, in San Bernardino County. The advisory provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Common Carp, Flathead Catfish, and sunfish species.
Jun 18, 2024, Program: Fish
Fish advisory for Gene Wash Reservoir in San Bernardino County.
Jun 18, 2024, Program: Fish
OEHHA may send letters to interested parties that assist in understanding Proposition 65 statutes and regulations, and their application.
Jun 14, 2024, Program: Proposition 65