Press Releases

Press Release - Information and safe eating advice for fish caught in Lexington Reservoir, located near Los Gatos.

Press Release - A state fish advisory for Shadow Cliffs Lake in Pleasanton offers safe eating advice for four species of fish.

CalEPA and OEHHA released a Spanish-language interface for CalEnviroScreen, making the interactive online mapping tool available in Spanish.

CalEPA lanzó de hoy una interfaz para la CalEnviroScreen, ofreciendo así por primera vez acceso a dicha herramienta interactiva en línea en español.

OEHHA held a public workshop in Los Angeles on December 3, 2015 to get input for a study on synthetic turf.  An informational poster and an agenda are available.

Three public workshops and an interactive webinar held to receive public comments on OEHHA's synthetic turf study.  An informational poster and agendas for the workshops are available.

Recommendations for safely eating fish from Ventura County's Lake Piru were developed by OEHHA for three fish species based on levels of mercury measured in fish sampled from Lake Piru.

A study by the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment suggests heat exposure may lead to a greater risk of infant mortality.

OEHHA has adopted an updated public health goal (PHG) of 1 part per billion (ppb) for perchlorate in drinking water.  This PHG updates the 2004 perchlorate value of 6 ppb.  Perchlorate is known to block the thyroid’s ability to take in and process iodide, which is a nutrient essential to brain development, growth, heart function, and other systems.

The study is the first to consider the effects on people of long-term exposure to ultrafine particles and analyzed data from more than 100,000 middle-aged women whose health status was followed from 2000 through 2007.