Each one-hour virtual webinar will provide user-friendly information to help you understand what is (and isn’t!) being done to protect our health from environmental threats. You’ll learn about actions that everyone can take to reduce exposures and push for greater protections.
Each session will be led by key experts in the field. There will also be Q&A portions in each webinar, so bring your questions and concerns!
The webinars are free — everyone is welcome to join! Register now for our third webinar in the series, Keeping Kids Safe from Lead, on October 29.
Webinar Topics:
- Safe Drinking Water (July 9) - Learn More
- PFAS “Forever” Chemicals in California (September 24) - Learn More
- Keeping Kids Safe From Lead (October 29) - Learn More
The Bite-size Enviro Health Lunch & Learn series is hosted by Children Now and Clean Water Action. For questions, please contact Andria Ventura (Clean Water Action) at aventura@cleanwater.org or Carley Clemons (Children Now) at cclemons@childrennow.org.
Webinar 1: Safe Drinking Water
The first session in the Bite-size Enviro Health series, focusing on Safe Drinking Water, happened on July 9, 2026. You can watch a recording of this session on YouTube.
Watch the Safe Drinking Water Webinar
This webinar featured two expert guests, Evelyn Wendel, Executive Director at We Tap, and Andria Ventura, California Policy Director at Clean Water Action.
Want to do more?
Strong drinking water standards only happen when the public calls on regulators to establish and enforce them. Contact Andria Ventura at Clean Water Action at aventura@cleanwater.org to help fight for strong regulations on PFAS in tap water without unnecessary delays. We'll keep you abreast of on-line actions, sign-on letters, and opportunities to make calls or speak at virtual meetings during California’s regulatory process.
Contact Evelyn Wendel at WeTap at evelynwendel@gmail.com if you want to help ensure that your community has adequate access to drinking water sources and reduce the use of bottled water. You can assist in ensuring that everyone has access to water fountains, refill stations, and other key resources.
Webinar 2: PFAS "Forever Chemicals" in California
The second session in the Bite-size Enviro Health series, PFAS "Forever Chemicals" in California, went live on September 24, 2026. You can watch a recording of this session on YouTube.
Watch the Webinar on PFAS "Forever Chemicals"
This webinar featured three expert guests:
- Dr. Anna Reade, Director, PFAS Advocacy, Environmental Health at Natural Resources Defense Council
- Nancy Buermeyer, Director of Program and Policy at Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
- Andria Ventura, California Policy Director at Clean Water Action
Want to do something about PFAS? Take Action Today!
Send a message to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will weaken standards on PFAS toxic forever chemicals in drinking water. That is the wrong decision. It’s urgent that the EPA take steps to limit PFAS in tap water, a critical step towards addressing this major public health issue.
PFAS are toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other health harms. As many as 105 million people in the U.S. get their drinking water from water systems contaminated by PFAS chemicals at hazardous levels.
We need as many activists as possible to tell the EPA you want the agency to resist industry pressure, reverse course, and support the strongest possible standards to protect millions of people from the dangers of toxic forever chemicals.
Send a message to the California State Water Resources Control Board.
PFAS "forever chemicals" have been detected in the drinking water of 25 million Californians. The first step in getting PFAS out of our water for California to establish statewide regulations for the two most prevalent types of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water (PFOA and PFOS). We expect this regulation to be finalized mid-2027, but we need to make sure that there are no delays in implementing that standard across California water systems.
Please take a moment to send a message to state regulators, telling them that they should reject drinking water systems' requests for extended compliance times.
Send a Message to CA State Regulators
Resources on PFAS "Forever Chemicals"
Practical Guidance
- BCPP — Water Filter Guide
- BCPP — Safer Cookware Guide
- Silent Spring Institute — PFAS Fact Sheet
- PFAS Central — PFAS-free products
- NRDC — PFAS in Clothes and Homegoods
- NRDC — PFAS in the Great Outdoors
California + Water
- Biomonitoring California — PFAS fact sheet
- California Water Boards — Drinking Water Resources
- U.S. EPA — Drinking Water Info
Webinar 3: Keeping Kids Safe from Lead
Join us on October 29 at 12:30 pm PT for the third webinar in the series, Keeping Kids Safe from Lead. Learn the basics of why lead is harmful to kids, common sources of lead, what has been done to protect kids from lead in California, how you can limit lead exposure, and more– plus an open Q&A section with our experts!
Topics to be covered:
- Lead 101: Why is lead harmful and how are kids exposed?
- What’s been done to protect kids from lead in California
- What you can do: How to limit lead exposure
Expert Speakers:
- Tom Neltner, National Director—Unleaded Kids
- Carley Clemons, Senior Policy Associate—Children Now
