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Flint water tower

Don’t let Congress abandon Flint

Quite frankly, the stories from Flint are hard to hear. It’s outrageous that families in Flint are charged some of the highest water bills in the nation for water that they can’t use. It’s unthinkable to most that the lead contamination crisis that began in Flint more than two years ago has not been “solved” by now. It’s unconscionable that Flint families are in the third year of being unable to turn on the faucet and get a drink of water.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: children's health, Congress, Dan Kildee, Environment New Jersey, EPA, Flint Michigan, funding, lead contamination, lead pipes, lead poisoning, Sierra Club, tap, water, water resources bill

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New study rates best and worst garden hoses: lead, phthalates & hazardous flame retardants in garden hoses

Lead leaches into water from hoses, study finds, the market is shifting to safer materials and products

Filed Under: Find Safer Products, Lead, Mind the Store Tagged With: Amazon, antimony, birth defects, BPA, bromine, chemicals, DEHP, drinking water, early puberty, Ecology Center, EPA, FDA, flame retardants, garden hose, hormone disruption, hose, impaired learning, lead, liver toxicity, Lowe's, organotins, phthalates, polyurethane, premature births, PVC plastic, PVC-free, The Home Depot, tin, vinyl, Walmart, water, water safety, water standards, worst products

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Hazardous chemical from scented products is polluting the Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are under emerging threat from an unnecessary long-lasting fragrance chemical. Galaxolide, a synthetic musk frequently used in those scented cleaning products that give our home that pine-fresh or lemony-smell, is getting washed down the drain, sneaking past wastewater treatment plants and is putting the Great Lakes’ delicate ecosystem as risk.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: chemicals, cleaning products, disclosure, fragrance, fragrance free, Galaxolide, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, pollution, scented products, synthetic musk, water, Women's voices

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