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Washington Attorney General compels Amazon to remove toxic school supplies – more action needed

Yesterday, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Amazon announced an important enforcement action that will keep brain-damaging lead and cancer-causing cadmium out of the hands and mouths of children. This follows an investigation that revealed consumers in Washington and across the country made at least 15,188 purchases of products with illegal levels of lead and cadmium from amazon.com.

Posted May 10, 2019 by Laurie Valeriano and Mike Schade

How are big retailers implementing bans on toxic paint strippers?

paint stripper containing methylene chloride on Walmart website on March 20, 2019

Over the past year, our Mind the Store campaign and coalition partners at NRDC won commitments from 13 top home improvement, big box, and auto-parts retailers to ban the sale of paint removal products containing the hazardous chemicals methylene chloride and NMP at over 30,000 stores across North America and the world.

Posted Mar 20, 2019 by Mike Schade and Jen Dickman

Amazon announces new policy to restrict toxic chemicals

On October 5, Amazon issued its first-ever public safer chemicals policy. The policy includes restrictions on dozens of toxic phthalates, parabens, formaldehyde releasers, nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), triclosan, and toluene in its private brand baby, household cleaning, personal care, and beauty products in the United States.

Posted Oct 10, 2018 by