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Our work together in 2013

This past year has been both amazing and incredibly hard. We’ve had a rollercoaster of a year filled with land mines and successes, but we’re still making progress.  Thanks to you.  As we look forward to 2014, we can only imagine what is possible, and we know our progress depends on your actions and engagement.  When you […]

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Dr. Susan Shaw with Lindsay Dahl of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

The things I learn while on the job

Cruising the halls of Congress can be fun when you’re side by side with leading physicians and scientists. I think I started to get a little bit smarter last week when I spent time on the hill with our coalition partner experts… Osmosis works that way right? We met with sixteen U.S. Senate offices in […]

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States drive momentum to get toxics out of consumer products

The Vermont state Senate could approve legislation as soon as today limiting exposure to a toxic flame retardant (the same one that was removed from children’s PJ’s decades ago) and is now turning up in home furnishings like sofas. Washington state and Connecticut are not far behind. So far, our friends at Safer States count […]

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