Our Mom Detective answers: I’m interested in creating a healthy home for my family. I’m worried about pollution from my gas stove and stair carpeting, but I’m a renter. I don’t get much say in things like appliances in my home, and …
Ask Mom Detective: What Can Renters Do to Create Healthy Homes?
A renter can do more to “green” their home than you’d think. Here are the top ways to reduce chemical exposure and indoor air pollution without having to ask the landlord.
WV Congress members quiet, advocates loud on Trump aim to ax Chemical Safety Board
#MomsSummerofAction: Tell Congress to Save the Chemical Safety Board
The Chemical Safety Board is the only federal agency that investigates the causes of chemical incidents, like fires and explosions at petrochemical plants and oil refineries. And yet its funding is currently on the chopping block.
Climate Communicators Refine Messages in New Political Era
What EPA Did This Month: Real but Unbelievable Environmental Attacks by the Trump Administration, May and June 2025
During his first 100 days, President Trump launched more attacks on the environment than in his entire first term. And the hits keep coming. Read about the administration’s most significant actions on air pollution, climate change, and toxic chemicals in May and June.
Protections Against Toxic Chemicals Are at Risk
Chemical industry lobbyists are pushing to weaken the laws that protect us from newly developed chemicals. They want us to believe that the hundreds of new chemicals they seek to put on the market each year will not make us sick.
Juneteenth, the EPA and recognition of freedom, liberty and justice
How EcoMusica & SonTierra Are Protecting Kids From Air Pollution and Climate Change With Music
Mom Detective: Countertops
Mom Detective answers Melinda in Mississippi’s question about how to renovate her kitchen with a safe countertop. Get the full scoop here.
Ask Mom Detective: What Types of Countertops Are Safe and Not Too Expensive?
There is a dizzyingly large number of possible health concerns with countertops. Mom Detective walks us through how to make safer, healthier countertop choices for our families.
Science Matters: Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Toxicologist and Former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
“The damage being done will take much longer to repair than it does to destroy.” A former federal scientist reflects on the harm of the Trump administration’s funding cuts and attack on science and on potential paths forward with Secretary Robert Kennedy.