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New polling confirms toxics issue shares broad bi-partisan support The weather isn’t the only thing heating up in Washington this week. The heat is on Congress to take action to protect American families from exposures to toxic chemicals. And new polling released today confirms what we already know: addressing toxic chemicals is a winning issue […]

A nationwide poll and four separate, statewide polls found similar strong support for bolstering protections against toxic chemicals. By overwhelming bipartisan margins, Americans support strengthening the 35-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), according to new polls released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition, and the Ecology Center.

On the eve of a U.S. Senate oversight hearing, professional firefighters and state legislators each decried the chemical manufacturers who deceived state legislatures about the dangers and efficacy of flame retardant chemicals.

You know what’s extreme? Daring to use the same dirty tricks Big Tobacco did decades ago. The audacity it takes for the chemical industry to implement and use the same deceptive tactics of distorting science, creating front groups and lying about the efficacy and safety of their chemicals is in fact, extreme. But we’re not […]

By Polly Schlaff In August 2006, I returned from a trip to the grocery store to find my husband, Doug, sitting on the couch, staring at the carpeting. “I don’t feel good,” he managed. Doug was a college athlete and a runner, not one to whimper over discomfort. Alarmed, I abandoned the grocery bags at […]

by Lindsay Dahl We’ve got an incredible network of bloggers that care about safer chemicals. As a result, there was great online buzz building up to and during the National Stroller Brigade. In case you missed them, here are some of the blog highlights. Please feel free to share these with your friends! Hannah, former […]

By Heather Von St James    Roseville, Minnesota Growing up, I was the quintessential daddy’s girl. Meeting him at the door when he got home from work to greet him with a hug, sitting close to him in the dusty front seat of his car… (these were the days before seat belt laws.) I loved wearing […]

Is it unfair to compare the chemical industry in 2012 to the tobacco industry in the 1990’s? Is it too harsh to suggest that we’ve migrated from Joe Camel to “Joe Chemical”? Read the Chicago Tribune’s recent series, Playing with Fire, and decide for yourself. Nicholas Kristof called it  “superb journalism” and we agree. The […]

Twenty-one state lawmakers from ten states denounced the tactics of the U.S. chemical industry and sent a letter to the head of the chemical industry trade group, asking for them to take action against unethical members.

By Lindsay Dahl, Deputy Director Last week we had an enormously successful event in the National Stroller Brigade. We highlighted the power that concerned mothers are having in the marketplace demanding safer products and how they are turning that concern to the political process, pushing for reform. We also highlighted the science showing that many […]