Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.
The Home Depot to be third major U.S. retailer to ban deadly paint strippers
Advocates call on Pruitt EPA to end delay, protect Americans from toxic products
Tribute to Andy Igrejas, environmental health hero
We lost a dear friend, colleague, and extraordinary public health champion this past weekend. Andy Igrejas was all of the above and more, and we’ll miss him greatly. Over these last dozen years, he founded Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families and led us in an ambitious marathon of a national campaign that resulted in the first major update to our broken chemical safety law, the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), in forty years.
Sherwin-Williams commits to ban deadly paint strippers
Second U.S. retailer to act following multiple deaths and EPA inaction
EPA’s asbestos “problem formulation” puts Americans at risk
Today the EPA released its long-awaited “problem formulation” documents for the first ten chemicals under review as required by the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families’ Acting Director Liz Hitchcock issued the following statement in response.
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In our second annual report card on safer chemicals in consumer products, the Mind the Store Campaign found that one-third of 30 major U.S. retailers are leaders, but two-thirds remain serious laggards.