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Mark Mitchell

Mark Mitchell

Ensuring protections for environmental justice communities

Despite EPA’s definition of “fair treatment,” “meaningful involvement,” and “environmental justice,” communities of color continue to be exposed to higher rates of air pollution, water pollution, toxics in products and contaminated properties. African Americans are more likely to live near landfills and dumps, contaminated Brownfield properties, trash incinerators, power plants, chemical plants, auto body shops, nail salons, and refineries than other Americans.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: action, bill, cancer, chemicals, environmental, environmental justice, EPA, exposure, families, health, Mark Mitchell, national black caucus of state legislators, new, phthalates, policy, products, retailers, safer, saferchemicals, state, store, toxic, toxic chemical pollution, TSCA

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 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: action, bill, cancer, cancer and firefighters, cancer prevention, chemicals, chemicals and our health, chemicals in couches, environmental, EPA, epw, exposure, families, firefighter health, firefighters, green products, health, Jennifer Beals, jessica alba, Lindsay Dahl, Liz Hitchcock, Louisiana Medical Association, Mark Mitchell, National Medical Association, natural products, new, organic cleaners, PBDEs, phthalates, policy, polybrominated diphnyel ethers, products, retailers, Safe Chemicals Act, safer, saferchemicals, Senator Landrieu, Senator Vitter, state, store, Susan Shaw, toxic, toxic chemicals, toxic couches, toxic flame retardants, Toxic Substances Control Act, toxics bill, TSCA

House Panel Tackles Chemical Legislation

Testimony from doctors, scientists, business and community leaders outline the need for TSCA reform.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, connecticut coalition for environmental justice, Construction Specialties, edf, hazardous chemicals, House Energy and Commerce Committee, howard williams, Mark Mitchell, richard denison, safer chemicals, toxic chemical reform, toxic chemicals, toxic chemicals safety act, toxics, TSCA, TSCA reform

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