“A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies” webinar delivered a scathing indictment of how plastics manufacturers have created an “absurd death spiral” that is loading the environment with so much plastic that it’s even in the air we breathe.
Mom Detective: Why Wrapping Paper Gets a Bad Rap
Paper wrapping is often made from nonrecyclable materials, including plastics. Here are the basics of eco-friendly gift wrapping.
Declining Global Sperm Counts Spell Troubling Fertility Challenges Ahead
Read this story of a mom’s fertility journey and a new study about declining sperm counts and the environmental exposures that contribute to growing rates of infertility.
It’s Time to Ditch Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers
Gas-powered leaf blowers release toxic pollutants into the air we breathe. These pollutants, many known carcinogens, can be extremely harmful to human health.
PFAS 101
What is PFAS, and how does it affect our everyday lives?
Keep Forever Chemicals Out of Our Bodies
A Michigan mom asks EPA to protect her family and community from PFAS “forever chemicals.”
PFAS Expert Offers Back-to-School Tips to Protect Kids
A PFAS expert tells us how parents can protect their kids from PFAS, aka “forever chemicals,” especially as they head back to school.
Gas Stoves: “Home is Where the Pipeline Ends”
Researchers at Harvard found that natural gas used in home stoves contains “at least 21 hazardous air pollutants that may impact air quality and health.” These pollutants include: dangerous levels of benzene and toluene.
Ask Mom Detective: Are Dishwasher Pods OK for the Environment?
Mom Detective answers a question from a member in California: “I like to use those dishwasher pods in the disposable clear packs, but I want to make sure they break down in the environment. Do they?”
Petrochemical Pollution and Our Health
Plastics are everywhere, and the industry that makes them is booming. The ubiquity of plastics and other petrochemicals comes at a steep cost to our health, especially for those living near production and processing facilities. Learn more about petrochemicals and our health, and how you can take action in our new fact sheet, “Petrochemical Pollution and Our Health.”
“Forever Chemicals” Threaten Women Young and Old
EPA recently found that even minuscule levels of exposure over a person’s lifetime can compromise a woman’s immune and cardiovascular systems. And PFAS exposure in the womb can have adverse health effects to mother and baby.
Petrochemical Pollution Is Harming Our Health. That Includes Plastics.
Plastics are everywhere, and the industry that makes them is booming. The ubiquity of plastics and other petrochemicals comes at a steep cost to our health, especially for those living near production and processing facilities.