It's National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. Children in at least 4 million U.S. homes are currently being exposed to high levels of lead. We need laws and policies that reduce kids' exposures and companies to stop using lead in their products. Until then, here's what you can do to reduce lead exposures.
Lead in Homes: Resources to Help You Create a Healthier Home | Toxic-Free Future
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We need stronger laws to eliminate exposures to lead, but until that time, here are a few tips that can help you reduce your family’s exposure to lead.Join us this Thursday for a film screening of "The Devil We Know," a new documentary about one of the biggest chemical industry scandals of our time. Then hear our panel discuss how toxic nonstick pollution is affecting us here in Washington and what we can do to end the nonstick nightmare. Hurry and get your tickets soon! www.siff.net/year-round-cinema/toxic-free-future-presents-the-devil-we-knowStephanie Soechtig's powerful Sundance documentary is a damning exposé of decades of intentional pollution of a West Virginia town with a harmful chemical us...
Last week our Science Director, Erika Schreder, attended the "Foam Summit" at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to learn about PFAS-free firefighting foams. She even got to see PFAS-free firefighting foams in action. Chief Randi Krause from SeaTac airport was there to talk about Washington's ban on PFAS foam too.
"What does that mean for the kids?"
"It basically means that our kids will continue to be poisoned," Dr. Etzel replied. "It basically means that kids are disposable, they don't matter."
Sidelined children's health official says EPA inaction means "kids are disposable"
Dr. Ruth Etzel, the agency's top pediatric expert who was placed on administrative leave, says the administration has no intention of taking action against lead in children's environments
Orca mothers pass on their toxic load to their young through their milk, possible one of the reasons first born orcas do not have a high survival rate. We need bold actions for Puget Sound that include cleaning up toxic hotspots and preventing future pollution by tackling toxics at their source. #PollutionPrevention4PugetSound
A baby orca's death, a mother's grief and a state's call to action
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From 2007 to 2014, two-thirds of Pacific Northwest orca pregnancies failed. Not a single calf has survived more than three years.
