Month: June 2017
New Report: BPA Still in 1/3 of Kroger & Albertsons Food Cans
By Mike Schade, Mind the Store campaign director for the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition. The Strategy Center is a founding member of the coalition. Today we co-released a new report that found toxic BPA in nearly 40% of food cans tested from the nation’s largest grocery stores and dollar store chains. The report, “Kicking the Can? Major… Read more »
Trump EPA Weakens TSCA Rules to Favor Chemical Industry
A guest blog by Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The Trump-Pruitt Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a set of rules last week that will make it easier to ignore chemical risks and disregard harmful exposures. The final rules introduce loopholes that could allow EPA to ignore important exposure routes… Read more »
Meet the Moms Who Got it Done
What does it take to pass safe drinking water law for children and families? Mom power! Our victory Monday in the Maine State House—safe drinking water law, passed with a strong, bipartisan veto override—will boost well-water testing and protect thousands of children and families in Maine’s rural areas from drinking water contaminated by arsenic, which causes bladder,… Read more »