Safer Chemicals for Safer Families and Communities

Thanks to advances in modern science, evidence continues to mount linking asthma, cancer, learning disabilities, reproductive damage, and a host of other diseases and disorders to toxic chemicals in our everyday products. This is more than an environmental issue- it is about our health and justice as well.

Tell REI to phase PFAS out of its products!

Tell REI: Phase PFAS Out of its Products!

The outdoor gear industry has a toxic secret. Many popular outdoor brands use toxic PFAS to waterproof products from jackets to boots. The production, use, and disposal of these products pollute people and the planet. We need to convince REI, one of the top outdoor retailers, to stop selling PFAS polluting products. Add your voice today.
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Items known to have PFAS chemicals: carpeting, non-stick cookware, rainjackets, tap water

Ask your Minnesota Lawmakers to prevent PFAS pollution

PFAS chemicals are a class of chemicals most in need of immediate policy action due to their wide-spread use in products, prevalence in breast milk and people’s bodies, and persistence in the environment. Ask your MN lawmakers to support legislation to prevent unnecessary PFAS use, require disclosure when PFAS chemicals are used, and to protect firefighters from PFAS foam today.
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PFAS Chemicals – Protecting Our Drinking Water And Our Health

PFAS are a class of human-made chemicals that very long-lived, which means that they remain in the environment and in humans and wildlife for a very long time. Clean Water is taking on Forever Chemicals" pollution through education, research, working with impacted communities, advocating for legislation and regulation at the state and national level, supporting Safe Drinking Water Act monitoring, holding polluters accountable, and more.
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Minnesota Water Action Wednesday Series

Minnesota Water Action Wednesdays is a series virtual events discussing pressing issues and topics regarding protecting our Minnesota water resources, learning the background and history, where we currently stand, what the future holds, and how you can take action.
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Factsheet: Minnesota 2023 PFAS Prevention Package

To protect current and future generations from harm Minnesota should take immediate action to stop the use of PFAS in a wide array of products. Clean Water Action and the Healthy Legacy Coalition are supporting the 2023 Minnesota PFAS Prevention Package which includes Information Disclosure, PFAS Non-Essential Use Ban, and Firefighting Foam Loophole Closure.

New England Currents -- Fall 2021

In This Issue | Let's Talk Trash! | Massachusetts: Offshore Wind in Salem | Connecticut: Equitable Energy Efficiency | Connecticut: PFAS | Massachusetts: The Road to Net-Zero Emissions Buildings in Boston | Massachusetts: Celebrating Steve Turner | Massachusetts: Polluted Polly Comes to Massachusetts

Community Letter -- Pass the PFAS Action Act

The science is clear: PFAS have been linked to serious health problems through decades of animal, worker, and human studies. Unfortunately, EPA has failed to take steps to restrict air and water releases, reduce PFAS in our tap water, or clean up the nation's most contaminated sites. H.R. 2467 will set clear deadlines requiring EPA to do just that.

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