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Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Releases New Report on Lead Screening of Children

Universal Testing Key to Prevention of Long-Term Developmental Damage

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation, Lead Tagged With: children's health, lead, lead policy, lead screening, Senator Cardin

Flint water tower

Don’t let Congress abandon Flint

Quite frankly, the stories from Flint are hard to hear. It’s outrageous that families in Flint are charged some of the highest water bills in the nation for water that they can’t use. It’s unthinkable to most that the lead contamination crisis that began in Flint more than two years ago has not been “solved” by now. It’s unconscionable that Flint families are in the third year of being unable to turn on the faucet and get a drink of water.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: children's health, Congress, EPA, lead poisoning, Sierra Club, water, Flint Michigan, tap, Environment New Jersey, lead contamination, lead pipes, funding, water resources bill, Dan Kildee

Mind the Store Walgreens Action

Good news – Walgreens developing a chemicals policy!

I have some exciting news! Since we launched the Mind the Store campaign nearly two years ago, we’ve been calling on the nation’s biggest retailers to get serious about toxic chemicals in their products. Last year we challenged Walgreens, the nation’s #1 pharmacy chain, to adopt a comprehensive chemicals policy. Guess what? They are listening […]

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: action, cancer, chemicals, children's health, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, flame retardants, health, mind the store, phthalates, policy, products, retailers, Target, toxic, Walgreens, Walmart, bill, corporate campaigns, markets campaigns, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

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