Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
Support strong nationwide action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
The shelves of your local drug store hardly seem like the source of dangerous chemicals such as lead and formaldehyde. But these and other potentially harmful chemicals are sold to consumers for direct application in makeup, shampoo, hair treatments, and lotions due to a poorly-regulated cosmetics industry.
The statute that regulates the $50 billion cosmetics industry is over 70 years old. It allows the cosmetics companies themselves to make decisions about the safety of their own ingredients, and prevents the Food and Drug Administration both from requiring safety assessments and from implementing product recalls.
This is a backwards approach to protecting public health. Now we have a chance to change that approach. Last month, the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011 (H.R. 2359) was introduced by Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc. You can help build the momentum needed to move this bill through the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Tell your Representative that you don’t want lead in your lipstick. Please urge them to support this Act.
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Please tell President Obama: You want him to use his authority under the Clean Air Act to prevent a chemical disaster near you.
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
The Toolkit is a combination of easy-to-use reference guides for health providers and user-friendly health education materials on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that affect infant and child health. Read more »
Coal Ash: The Toxic Threat to Our Health and Environment
Coal ash, one of the dirtiest secrets in American energy production, burst into the U.S. consciousness three days before Christmas, 2008 when an earthen wall holding back a huge coal ash disposal pond failed at the coal-fired power plant in Kingston, Tennessee. Read more »
Prenatal Exposures
How is the developing fetus vulnerable to toxic chemical exposures, and how can our regulatory system more effectively protect our health in the prenatal period? From PSR's Environmental Health Policy Institute. Read more »
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