Safer Chemicals for Minnesota

Did you know the shampoo, cleaner, or laundry detergent you wash down the drain may be harming your health and the health of our water? Find out how these chemicals are making their way from our products into our bodies and water, discover simple steps you can take to protect your health from toxic chemicals, and see what we're doing to fight for safer chemicals.

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Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC): An Early Warning Sign

People and industry use tens of thousands of chemicals. A vast array of these chemicals have been found in our environment, where we consider them contaminants of emerging concern or CECs. Most of these CECs have not been fully evaluated for the risks they might pose to the environment— or to our health.
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Minnesota 2023 PFAS Prevention Package: Amara's Law

In 2023, Minnesota passed the strongest PFAS prevention legislation in the country. The legislation was named Amara's Law after Amara Strande, a young woman who grew up in an area contaminated by PFAS and diagnosed with an exceedingly rare form of cancer. Amara advocated and testified in support of the bills banning all non-essential use of PFAS chemicals, requiring manufacturers who are selling products in Minnesota to disclose if PFAS chemicals are present, and to close a loophole in the 2019 bill that ended the use of PFAS in firefighting foam.

Factsheet - MN Legislation Needed to Remove Toxic Flame Retardant Chemicals from Family Tents

An outdated 1975 Minnesota law continues to unnecessarily expose consumers, children, MN lakes, waterways and the environment to unnecessary toxic flame retardants in tents.

Minnesota Currents | Summer 2023

In This Issue: Minnesota Makes History with PFAS Prevention Package | In Memoriam: Amara Strande | Cumulative Impacts and the Role Clean Water Action Is Playing in Environmental Justice Work | ReThink Disposable In Minnesota: Meet Chloe! | Progress on Lead Removal | Thank You For Your Support This Year!

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