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Originally published by the Huffington Post. By Andy Igrejas, National Campaign Director for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a coalition of nearly 300 environmental health groups working to overhaul our failed federal chemicals policy. A fight that has been raging in state legislatures, corporate boardrooms, scientific journals and a shopping aisle near you for a decade […]

Today Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) broke new ground by announcing the introduction of the “Safe Chemicals Act of 2011” by video posted on YouTube. Lautenberg’s video announcement opens with a series of compelling stories from people who have testified before his committee about the need to reform the nation’s chemical laws. Among those featured are:

Signaling their clear intention to protect families from toxic chemicals linked to serious health problems, Senators Frank Lautenberg, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Charles Schumer and others today introduced legislation to upgrade America's outdated system for managing chemical safety.

PVC in your baby’s bath toys? That’s personal. BPA in the canned food you serve your family? That’s personal. Formaldehyde in your dress shirts? That’s personal. What better way to deal with a personal issue like your family’s health than to write a personal letter to your member of Congress asking them to support toxic […]

By the team at Breast Cancer Fund We know BPA is all around us, and the Centers for Disease Control tells us the chemical is in almost 95 percent of us. And we know that laboratory studies have linked BPA to breast cancer, along with a whole host of other serious health problems. But what […]

In this unprecedented human study, researchers discovered an average drop of 60 percent in BPA levels when study participants ate a diet that avoided contact with BPA-containing food packaging.

It began with a phone call between two sisters. Who then called two friends, who called their friends. And so on. At first blush, it doesn’t seem possible that virtually the entire U.S. baby bottle supply – millions of bottles – could be completely reconfigured within two years by a modern day “telephone game” played […]

The Toxic-Free Legacy Coalition is an alliance of over 60 Washington state health, environmental, and community organizations. Together they work to protect health and the environment from toxic chemicals. 

by Jennae Petersen In January 2010, my 4 year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer (leukemia, to be specific). I still don’t like to use that word. In fact, I almost never say it. I don’t believe my daughter has ever said it, and she’s probably heard it only once or twice when doctors and nurses […]

BPA is a very common chemical found in plastics, food and beverage can linings, and other consumer products. BPA is one of the highest volume chemicals produced in the world; according to the Centers for Disease Control, 93% of us have it in our bodies. BPA mimics estrogen and, in animal studies, researchers have linked […]