An alarming new study finds infants consume unsafe levels of phthalates, a synthetic chemical used in everyday consumer products. And Black and Latina moms have higher exposures of phthalates, making their children more at risk.
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Nancy Beck Should Not Lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission
President Trump nominated Nancy Beck, a former chemical industry lobbyist, to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. She has shown time and time again that she will work to protect polluting industry, not families. Beck’s the opposite of what our children need.
Healthy Pregnancy Guide
This “Healthy Pregnancy Guide” is filled with tools, tips, information, and product recommendations for healthier solutions – based in hard science and research – on the ways to cultivate healthy practices and a healthy pregnancy.
Tell EPA Black Communities Need Clean Air to Breathe
“We all deserve to breathe air that is safe regardless of the color of our skin or our zip code. It is time for Wheeler to do his job and protect us, not polluters.” – Texas field organizer Catherine Flowers writes in this important op-ed in the Houston Chronicle.