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The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) decided to withdraw the proposed rulemaking intended to update the No Significant Risk Level for Ethylene Oxide.
| Program: Proposition 65
Paula Torrado Plazas, MPH, has served since June 2023 as OEHHA’s Racial Equity and Environmental Justice (REEJ) Program Manager.
| Program: About
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. This webinar is the first in the series and will be co-convened with CAL FIRE.
| Program: Climate Change
Learn about the Executive Office at Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
| Program: About
Today, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a fish consumption advisory for Lake Morena, located approximately 36 miles east of the city of San Diego in San Diego County. The advisory provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Common Carp and crappie species.
| Program: Fish
On January 24, 2024, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) convened a symposium as part of its efforts to track and report on climate change and its impacts on California.
| Program: Climate Change
OEHHA recognizes the value of tribal knowledge in reporting on climate change impacts, and of raising awareness of tribal-specific impacts.
| Program: Climate Change
Effective December 29, 2023, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has added bisphenol S (BPS) to the Proposition 65 list as a reproductive toxicant (female reproductive endpoint).
| Program: Proposition 65
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is proposing amendments to its conflict of interest code contained in the Title 2, Section 54700 of California Code of Regulations. OEHHA is taking this action is pursuant to the authority vested in it by section 87306 of the Government Code. A comment period has been established commencing on January 12, 2024, and closing on February 26, 2024.
| Program: Proposition 65