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Making the health case for safer chemicals

We were fortunate to have a great group of health partners who came to DC to join us in meetings on Capitol Hill last week.

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Dr. Yolanda Whyte speaks to the ‘Stroller Brigade’

As a pediatrician, I recognize this issue is vast. We’re exposed to chemicals in our products, homes, places of work and in our communities and we need a strong federal system that takes into account all of these exposures and adequately protects our children.

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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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