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The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment intends to list antimony (trivalent compounds) as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.

Vea el nuevo StoryMap en español que conmemora los 10 años de la primera versión pública de CalEnviroScreen. El StoryMap muestra cómo se desarrolló CalEnviroScreen, se ha mejorado con el paso de tiempo, ha sido utilizado para promover la justicia ambiental y cómo se ha convertido en un modelo nacional.

Fish advisory for Sunbeam Lake in Imperial County.

Fish advisory for Gwen Moore Lake in Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles County.

A state fish advisory issued today for Sunbeam Lake in Imperial County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, sunfish species and Threadfin Shad.

A state fish advisory issued today for Gwen Moore Lake in Los Angeles County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Common Carp, Mississippi Silverside and sunfish species.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is announcing the webcast option for the Northern California Public Workshop on releasing a draft document for public review that summarizes the carcinogenicity data and derives an updated cancer inhalation unit risk factor for ethylene oxide. At the request of the American Chemistry Council, OEHHA hereby extends the public comment period. The public comment period will now close on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. 

Please see the new StoryMap on the 10-year anniversary of the first public version of CalEnviroScreen to learn about how the tool was developed, has improved over time, been used to advance environmental justice, and come to serve as a national model. In recognition of the collaborative process the informed the tool, the StoryMap contains numerous quotes from users of the tool and key people that have contributed their time, expertise, and opinions to help shape CalEnviroScreen over the years.

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.