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Toxic Time is up

Does pink ribbon awareness work?

Each year, corporations pack the shelves with pink ribbon products, surrounding us with “breast cancer awareness” messages. These products help to raise billions of dollars in the name of breast cancer, and yet more than 40,000 women in the U.S. still die of the disease every year.

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Delivering your cancer prevention message to the White House

Incredible! 73,635 of you signed petitions asking President Obama to make it a priority for his Administration to stop the use of cancer-causing chemicals in products used in America every day. Today, we brought your signatures to the White House, tied up in a pretty bow, to make it clear that people want to stop […]

Filed Under: Health Science, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: cancer, carcinogens, greenpeace, NRDC, president obama, President’s cancer panel, toxic chemicals

A Presidential Legacy: Preventing Cancer

If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to sign the petition, please click here to add your voice! Last May, the Presidential Cancer Panel presented President Obama with its annual report which confirmed that toxic chemicals are a grossly underestimated risk factor for cancer. The Panel urged President Obama to “most strongly use the power […]

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