• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Safer Chemicals Healthy Families

A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

  • Get Involved
  • Our Work
    • News
    • Public Policy
    • Mind the Store
    • Successes
  • Get the Facts
  • About
  • Donate

moms

The Stroller Brigade gave us a voice

By Jeannine and Hana Sato I’ve been a member of MomsRising North Carolina since 2008. Toxic reform is one of our top issues, but I have previously been focused on other areas. After hearing Lindsay Dahl speak at a Toxic Free North Carolina meeting in Durham, last year, I was shocked, then stunned, then angry […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: action, cancer, Chemical Safety Improvement Act, chemicals, children's health, Congress, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, health, lobbying, moms, Moms Rising, North Carolina, outside voices, phthalates, policy, products, reform, retailers, setting an example, stroller brigade, toxic, Toxic Substances Control Act, Triangle moms, TSCA, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

Sippy cups and stethoscopes. Strollers and senators.

When Safer Chemicals Healthy Families held our Stroller Brigade for Safer Chemicals in Washington DC, we brought hundreds of parents, kids, educators, environmental justice leaders and health care professionals to Capitol Hill to put a human face on the need for reform of the 37 year old Toxic Substances Control Act.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: action, Andy Igrejas, anne brock, Black Women for Wellness, California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, cancer, Catherine Porter, chemicals, Congress, Dads, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, FlourSackMama.com, Groovy Green Livin, health, Jennifer Beals, Jose Bravo, Just Transition Alliance, legislation, Lori Alper, Meeting, moms, Murkowski, Nourbese Flint, phthalates, policy, products, retailers, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, Shane Shirely Smith, stroller brigade, Stroller Moms, Superior Business Solutions Family Suite of Companies, toxic, toxic chemical laws, TSCA, Washington DC, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

James Leo at the Stroller Brigade

Retailers compete to clean up toxic chemicals, consumers benefit

I met a Montana mom as part of our “Stroller Brigade.” Like many people she came to this issue by facing health problems of her own. She stopped using conventional cleaners and avoids eating processed food. She’s done a lot, but we know that due to our weak federal laws, she can’t control every toxic chemical exposure in her home and community.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: action, cancer, chemicals, children, Congress, customer complaints, customer satisfaction, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, health, moms, parents, phthalates, policy, products, reform, retailers, retailers compete, stroller brigade, Target, toxic, toxic chemicals in products, Walmart, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

rain jacket

Tell REI: Stop leaving a toxic trail of pollution

Take Action

Subscribe to Posts

Get our latest posts delivered to your inbox.

Get the Facts

These chemicals are linked to serious environmental and health problems. Check out our fact sheets, which draw from the leading peer-reviewed science.

  • Bisphenol A (BPA) & Bisphenol S (BPS)
  • Formaldehyde
  • Methylene chloride
  • Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
  • PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)
  • Phthalates
  • Toxic flame retardants
Other Chemicals »

Footer

Contact Us

200 Massachusetts Ave NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001
Email

Search

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

© 2022 Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families — All rights reserved.

  • About Us
  • Privacy policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Feed