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TJX announces new restrictions on toxic chemicals as part of new chemicals strategy
Last month, TJX—the parent company of TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, Home Goods, and Sierra Trading Post—announced on its website it is developing an expanded “Chemical Management” strategy.
The new program, which follows more than three years of advocacy by the Mind the Store campaign, Clean Water Action, Trillium Asset Management, First Affirmative Financial Network , and the Investor Environmental Health Network, takes an important step forward towards protecting customers, workers, and the environment from toxic chemical exposure, and paves the way for future action.
Highlights of TJX’s newMassachusetts Senate Passes Clean Energy Bill
Last week, the Massachusetts Senate passed a landmark clean energy bill, S.2545, An Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future. While the fight is not over, and a House version still needs to pass, this bill is a strong signal to the world that Massachusetts wants to be on the forefront of climate policy and justice.
Thank you Lowe’s: Toxic paint strippers going, going….!
From May 6 th through May 11th, 2018, consumers from around the country visited their local Lowe’s home improvement stores as a part of the “Mind the Store’s” Week of Action to urge Lowe’s to remove harmful chemicals from its products – in particular, methylene chloride commonly found in paint strippers. Massachusetts’ Clean Water Action staff Kadineyse Paz, Laura Spark, and myself went to Lowe’s in Braintree, MA to partake in this campaign on May 10 th (pictured above).
In the Lowe's in Dedham we had Clean Water Action New England Director Cindy Luppi join a longtime activist and her
Youth Action Collaborative
Clean Water Massachusetts Youth Action Collaborative is a space to educate, energize, and organize Massachusetts youth to take action on local environmental issues that you’re passionate about as well as plugging you into key campaigns already happening in Massachusetts.
New England Currents | Spring-Summer 2018
In This Issue: Big Victory at Lowe's Hardware | Moms Speak Out | Zero Waste Boston Update | Fighting Fracking from PA to MA | Massachusetts Youth Advisory Board | Welcome Marisol, Vick, Laura, and Blake | Biomass Victory in Rhode Island | In Memoriam: Dave Gerraughty | Fighting for a Sustainable Water Plan in Connecticut | 2018 Connecticut Energy Bill Update | Connecticut Youth Lobby Day