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Liz Hitchcock

Liz Hitchcock

Director

Liz Hitchcock is Director of Safer Chemicals Healthy Families. She oversees staff, coordinates our work with partner organizations, and manages the campaign’s advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill and at EPA and other federal agencies. She joined the campaign after four years as the public health advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. In that capacity, she led U.S. PIRG’s campaigns on environmental health issues including product safety, chemical policy reform, chemical facility security and food safety. She coordinated PIRG’s successful campaign to win landmark federal standards for toxic lead and phthalates in children’s products in the 2008 reform of Consumer Product Safety Commission and was PIRG’s lead lobbyist on the food safety campaign that resulted in the 2010 passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Prior to becoming public health advocate, she served as U.S. PIRG’s Communications Director for eleven years, working with the state PIRGs’ advocacy and field staffs to educate the national and local media on such issues as product safety, clean water, toxic chemical accidents, safe energy alternatives and air pollution. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and a native of Schenectady, NY.

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Legal victory in the fight to save lives from asbestos!

In a welcome holiday announcement, we learned this week of a legal victory in the fight against asbestos! After EPA’s 2018 denial of a petition filed by our allies at Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) to make sure EPA collects information on asbestos use and exposure was upheld, we joined ADAO and other public health groups in a legal challenge that was upheld this week.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: American Public Health Association, asbestos, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, Center for Environmental Health, Defend Our Health, Environmental Working Group, EPA

EPA inaction means workers risk their lives using deadly paint strippers

No one should have to risk their life to earn a paycheck.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: EPA, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, methylene chloride, paint stripper

Cecil Corbin-Mark

Sharing news of a huge loss: Cecil Corbin-Mark has passed away

With great love and admiration, we share the sad news of the sudden loss of a treasured friend and ally in the fight to protect communities from toxic chemicals.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cecil corbin-mark

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