Toxics

Just a few weeks ago, Moms Clean Air Force Ohio field organizer, Jenny Linn, lost her life to breast cancer. One in eight U.S. women will get breast cancer in their lifetime. Of those, 11 percent are under the age of 45. Twenty-odd years ago,...

In the battle to reduce plastic pollution, you can now buy shampoo and personal care products that don’t contain plastic microbeads. And you’re probably already using a reusable non-plastic water bottle and cloth shopping bags. But those actions are only making a dent in the huge...

Our friends at Union of Concerned Scientists created this simple quiz to help us keep our kids safe from harmful and dangerous chemicals, and remind us to think about our product choices because: “There are more than 80,000 chemicals currently in production in the United States…Only...

  Is nothing sacred? Apparently not when it comes to our exposure to toxic chemicals. and other dangerous compounds that are linked to cancer, birth defects, and learning disabilities. Filmmaker, Jon Whelan stumbled upon this shocking information completely by accident, when he bought new pajamas...

  Do you know if your child’s school building has asbestos? When we send our children off to school each morning there’s an underlying assumption that they are headed to a safe and healthy environment for learning. Unfortunately that’s not always the case. Asbestos, an...