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Beth Kemler

Beth Kemler

Mobilization Director

Beth Kemler is the Mobilization Director for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. She has been organizing public interest campaigns for fifteen years, focusing on both policy and markets-based campaigns. Most recently, she served as the Virginia Director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, leading a team that got bills for climate solutions passed and exposed the commonwealth’s top climate-polluting companies. Before that, Kemler worked on Oceana’s successful campaign on mercury in seafood and organized students with Free The Planet! and the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group. Her professional organizing career started in college when she was a door-to-door canvasser in her hometown of Philadelphia.

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Aqueous firefighting foam is deployed at a Navy base.

PFAS-free firefighting foams are safer and effective for military use

These next few weeks are crunch time in Congress for negotiations on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Dupont, firefighting foam, PFAS, US Department of Defense

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Time to celebrate: States lead the way against toxic chemicals in products and packaging

For many states across the country, the 2019 legislative session has come to a close. And congratulations are in order for legislators and organizations across the country who have spearheaded the fight for new state laws to protect us from toxic chemicals!

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs), bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S, children, Clean Water Action, drinking water, Environmental Health Strategy Center, firefighter health, firefighters, flame retardants, food packaging, maine, Minnesota, PCBs, PFAS, phthalates, pregnant women, pregnant women and children, Toxic-Free Future, Washington state

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Court orders EPA to ban chlorpyrifos!

Last week our allies achieved a big win for Americans’ health! A federal court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with a ban on chlorpyrifos—a toxic pesticide known to harm children’s brains that is used on many different crops, including nuts, apples and berries—within 60 days.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: chlorpyrifos, earthjustice, EPA, food, Learning Disabilities Association of America, NRDC, pesticide action network north america, pesticides, Trump administration

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