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Beth Kemler

Beth Kemler

Mobilization Director

Beth Kemler is the Mobilization Director for Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and Mind the Store. 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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PHOTOS: Polluted Polly travels the U.S. on her quest to ban PFAS from food packaging

During Polly’s travels, she has urged Burger King to join McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and other major retailers in banning PFAS from its food packaging. And she’s been urging Congress to ban PFAS from all U.S. food packaging.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Clean Water Action, food packaging, PFAS, Defend Our Health, Polluted Polly, Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act

12 of our favorite reads on toxic chemicals and environmental justice

Marking Earth Day at home this year? We’ve assembled a list of some of our favorite books, blogs, and articles to learn more about the fight to stop the chemical industry from polluting our homes, schools, and workplaces with toxic chemicals and achieve environmental justice for the most impacted communities.

Filed Under: Find Safer Products Tagged With: WeACT for Environmental Justice, Leah Segedie, Earth Day, books, Dr. Shanna Swan, Peggy Shepard

Judge throws out Trump EPA’s science-censoring rule

Yesterday, at the Biden EPA’s request, a federal judge vacated a Trump EPA rule that would have weakened the agency’s ability to protect our health. Hundreds of thousands of Americans and hundreds of scientists spoke out against it, and attorneys general for 14 states and six cities took action in opposition.

Filed Under: Health Science, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: EPA, science, success, Trump administration, Biden administration

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