• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

  • Get Involved
  • Our Work
    • News
    • Public Policy
    • Mind the Store
    • Successes
  • Get the Facts
  • About
  • Donate

Jen Dickman

Jen Dickman

Senior Program Associate

Jennifer Dickman is a senior program associate for Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and Mind the Store. Prior to joining the programs, she interned for the Democratic Staff of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, where she assisted with projects related to federal chemical policy reform, and before that with the Environmental Working Group. She has also worked for a small consulting firm researching energy issues and monitoring electricity auctions. Jennifer holds a law degree with a concentration in environmental law from the University of Maryland School of Law and a bachelor of science in chemistry from the University of Delaware.

Posts by Jen Dickman

Share
Tweet
food containers

How retailers can stop packaging food with “forever chemicals”

The Mind the Store Campaign, in partnership with Toxic-Free Future, has developed new guides for grocery and quick-service restaurant chains. We’re offering straightforward steps for chains to make sure their food packaging is truly free of all PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: food, food packaging, grocery stores, PFAS, restaurants

DS Super Remover

A new resource: safer paint strippers for consumers and workers

With advocacy and regulations spurring a shift away from methylene chloride and NMP (though EPA has failed to act on NMP), consumers and contractors may be wondering what alternatives they can use.

Filed Under: Find Safer Products, Mind the Store Tagged With: hazardous chemicals, methylene chloride, N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), retailers, safer alternatives

EPA ordered to act on lead to protect children’s health

Last week, thanks to our coalition partners WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Sierra Club, and Earthjustice, and others, a federal court ordered the U.S. EPA to update standards for lead in paint and dust to protect children’s health. The agency must propose the revised standards in 90 days, and finalize them a year after that, despite EPA’s arguments for a further delay.

Filed Under: Lead, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: EPA, exposure, lead, policy, TSCA

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

person stripping paint

Tell Biden’s EPA: Ban this deadly chemical from the workplace

Take Action

Subscribe to Posts

Get our latest posts delivered to your inbox.

Get the Facts

These chemicals are linked to serious environmental and health problems. Check out our fact sheets, which draw from the leading peer-reviewed science.

  • Bisphenol A (BPA) & Bisphenol S (BPS)
  • Formaldehyde
  • Methylene chloride
  • Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
  • PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)
  • Phthalates
  • Toxic flame retardants
Other Chemicals »

Footer

Contact Us

200 Massachusetts Ave NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001
Email

Search

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

© 2021 Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families — All rights reserved.

  • About Us
  • Privacy policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Feed