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by Margie Kelly, campaign communications director and mom Let’s face it: becoming a mother does not put you on the fast track to attaining political power. Whether because society expects us to or because we want it that way (feel free to debate amongst yourselves), moms tend to focus on the needs of their children […]

Pending “Safe Chemicals Act” Needs More Public Health Protections to Reduce Carcinogens in Products, Communities

This report provides important validation to the scientists, families, and advocates who have been urging lawmakers to acknowledge the link between chemical exposure and cancer. Please read the coalition’s press release here. The following is an insightful blog written by Richard Denison, Senior Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Yes, Virginia (and all 49 other […]

Oprah.com doles out some Mother’s Day love to TSCA reform in this interview with Christine Cordero from the Center for Environmental Health. She opens by talking about the fight against lead and brings it into a conversation about chemicals policy, TSCA reform, and the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition. It’s a 21 minute long interview and rocks the TSCA reform issue […]

Cindy Luppi, Clean Water Action Mother’s Day is this Sunday and this year, we’re asking for a special gift for moms across the nation: a healthier future, free of toxic chemicals. Moms, dads, sons, daughters, and grandparents from coast to coast are raising their voices – and their cameras – in support of new legislation […]

If you’ve been following our campaign — or the debate over chemical policy — you know that we reached a milestone on April 15, when both the U.S. House and Senate unveiled strong legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). As the House is planning action on the legislation very soon, I thought […]

Big thanks to our coalition partners Healthy Child, Healthy World for organizing a Twitter party designed to help our movement get informed and mobilized for real reform! Here’s more detailed information on the Tweet-up from the Healthy Child, Healthy World web site. . . Parents should not have to be toxicologists to have a safe home. […]

Lindsay Dahl, Deputy Campaign Director It’s been a week since Senator Frank Lautenberg introduced the groundbreaking Safe Chemicals Act of 2010. Now that we’ve had more time to look over the Senate bill and the discussion draft released by the House of Representatives on the same day, we are still pleased. We support most aspects […]

Today Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010, an ambitious bill aimed at revamping the 34-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. This is not the first time Congress has attempted to fix our nation’s flawed system for regulating toxic chemicals, but it is the first time that both chemical industry […]

Coalition of 11 Million Supports Bill, But Seeks Improvements Before Enactment