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Tips for a less toxic school

Are you looking to take action to decrease chemical exposures in your child’s school? You may have already switched to non-toxic products at home, but on average kids spend eight hours a day at school! Some of our coalition partners have great tools to help green your child’s school with toolkits that help students, teachers, […]

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Gretchen Lee Salter

Disrupted Development

No matter how careful a woman is, there is no way to avoid all BPA exposure. And you know what? It shouldn’t be our job! No one, especially a pregnant woman, should have to be a toxicologist to go to the grocery store.

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Common Cause Sheds Light on the Chemical Industry’s Political Machine

“Today’s report by Common Cause, Toxic Spending, is a powerful reminder of what we’re up against in our pursuit of common sense limits on toxic chemicals,” says Andy Igrejas, Campaign Director at Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families.

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