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Why I’ll miss Lisa Jackson (and you should too)

By Andy Igrejas, Campaign Director As you may have heard, Lisa Jackson has announced that she is stepping down as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. No one can blame her. It’s an increasingly thankless job. But I’m going to miss her and you should too, as the storminess of her tenure has implications for […]

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Ask Dow Chemical to stop supporting toxic flame retardants!

When will Dow Chemical get off the toxic couch?

When Herbert H. Dow tapped the bromine salt deposits beneath Midland, Michigan, he launched a major chemical company and the chemistry that, more than a century later, still haunts our homes and bodies with toxic flame retardants. Scientists shed new light on this growing chemical threat just last week, with two research teams reporting results […]

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: brominated and chlorinated flame retardants, cancer, chlorinated tris, couch cushion, developmental toxicity, Dow chemical, Environmental Science & Technology, Herbert H. Dow, hormone disruption, Jenny Rottmann, phosphorus oxychloride, reproductive harm, systemic toxicity, TDCPP, toxic flame retardants, tris

Joe Chemical is back!

Who is the face of the chemical industry?

We recently learned some startling things about the chemical industry. Since 2005 they have spent $375 million dollars on elections and lobbying Congress. In just the third quarter of 2012, the chemical industry trade association spent $3.48 million dollars lobbying Congress to block reform. And in the first six months of this year, Dow Chemical […]

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