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Tell Congress it’s time to pass legislation to protect our families from toxic chemicals. On July 28, the Safer Chemicals coalition joined its partner organization EarthJustice to produce a provocative ad that ran in the Capitol Hill newspapers Roll Call and Politico, publications whose readership includes most elected officials in federal government and their staffers. […]

Congressmen Bobby Rush (D-IL) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) today introduced a groundbreaking bill to overhaul U.S. chemicals policy in the House Energy & Commerce Committee.

By Mia Davis National Grassroots Coordinator of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Cancer-causing chemicals in the baby’s bubble bath? Lead in lipstick? Time to get the real story on chemicals in cosmetics! Today’s a beautiful day for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. For starters, we’re launching The Story of Cosmetics, a 7-minute film from the […]

Want to know more about the toxic characters that have leached and off-gassed into every aspect of our lives? Check out our new video to glimpse their diabolical back-room scheming, then read our web pages to discover their tragic pasts and favorite hangouts, the little-known quirks that make them so special, and how to avoid […]

Public Health vs. Industry Debate Takes Center Stage in Pending Bill to Overhaul Toxic Substances Control Act

By Representative Bobby Rush. Reproduced by permission from Chemical Watch, June 2010, www.chemicalwatch.com. Chemical manufacturers in the US must shoulder more responsbility for the substances they produce, argues Democrat Congressman Bobby Rush, chair of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection and co-sponsor of draft TSCA reform proposals in the House. […]

Originally published in The Huffington Post. By Andy Igrejas, Director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a coalition of 250 environmental and public health organizations working to overhaul our federal chemicals policy. www.saferchemicals.org This week the American Chemical Society is holding a meeting on Green Chemistry— a subject that holds much promise for the future. Chemicals […]

Lindsay Dahl, Deputy Campaign Director It’s hard to pronounce, and even harder to find on a product label, yet the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) has become a household word. BPA comes up in casual conversation: Have you switched out your water bottles yet? Do I really have to live without canned green beans? So how […]

Shrek glasses with cadmium?! Canned food contaminated with the sex hormone bisphenol A?! Cancer-causing formaldehyde in furniture?! If you’ve followed the stories in the media in the last few months, it’s probably not news to you that current law isn’t protecting us from harmful chemicals. Fortunately, the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 was just introduced […]

Our coalition held a press call today to announce a proposal and to help reporters make the connection between Corexit, the worrisome chemical dispersant being used to clean up the Gulf oil spill, and our nation’s failing system for regulating such chemicals, the Toxic Substances Control act of 1976 (TSCA). What’s going on in the […]