About Mike Schade
Mike Schade leads Toxic-Free Future’s Mind the Store program, which challenges retailers to shift the marketplace away from hazardous chemicals and develop comprehensive safer chemicals policies. Prior to joining TFF Mike was Markets Campaign Coordinator with the Center for Health Environment & Justice (CHEJ) where he led campaigns to phase out PVC plastic, phthalates, and bisphenol A in consumer products and packaging, and led the Buffalo office of a statewide environmental health organization. He has a BS in Environmental Studies from the University at Buffalo. Mike lives in New York with his wife and dog, and regularly explores the region’s mountains, lakes, and beaches.
IEEFA has identified 24 companies with new or expanding petrochemical projects in #Louisiana. Most of these projects are misaligned with markets and risk wasting substantial amounts of taxpayer dollars.
Find out why in our new report:
"Each piece of plastic we encounter carries with it stories of bodily violence, lives cut short and planetary heating," Moms' Cynthia Palmer writes in an article published by @ABAesq's Human Rights Magazine.
Cynthia explains why we must go #BeyondPetrochemicals:…
This new study underscores the need for retailers and states to phase out and ban #PFAS (including PTFE) and toxic plastics such as polystyrene and #PVC.
