Trump administration ends talks with California, presses ahead with Clean Car Standards rollback

5 years 7 months ago
EDF attorney Erin Murphy co-authored this post  The Trump administration announced today that it will end negotiations with California and press ahead with its attempts to roll back America’s successful Clean Car Standards. Rolling back the Clean Car Standards would increase pollution and raise costs for American families. The administration’s justification for weakening these safeguards is […]
Martha Roberts

Trump administration ends talks with California, presses ahead with Clean Car Standards rollback

5 years 7 months ago
EDF attorney Erin Murphy co-authored this post  The Trump administration announced today that it will end negotiations with California and press ahead with its attempts to roll back America’s successful Clean Car Standards. Rolling back the Clean Car Standards would increase pollution and raise costs for American families. The administration’s justification for weakening these safeguards is […]
Martha Roberts

Trump administration ends talks with California, presses ahead with Clean Car Standards rollback

5 years 7 months ago
EDF attorney Erin Murphy co-authored this post  The Trump administration announced today that it will end negotiations with California and press ahead with its attempts to roll back America’s successful Clean Car Standards. Rolling back the Clean Car Standards would increase pollution and raise costs for American families. The administration’s justification for weakening these safeguards is […]
Martha Roberts

New Study: Pesticide Levels in Families Drop Dramatically After One Week of Eating Organic

5 years 7 months ago

Written by Moms Clean Air Force

This was written by Robyn O’Brien: A groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published in the journal Environmental Research found that switching to an organic diet significantly reduced the levels of synthetic pesticides found in all participants – after less than one week. On average, the pesticides detected...

Moms Clean Air Force

The elephant in the room: potential biopersistence of short-chain PFAS

5 years 7 months ago
Maricel Maffini, Ph.D., Consultant and Tom Neltner, J.D., Chemicals Policy Director In January 2018, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists published a peer-reviewed journal article stating a commonly used raw material to make greaseproof paper is likely to persist in the human body. FDA scientists’ sophisticated analysis and remarkable conclusion raises questions about the broad assumption […]
Tom Neltner

The elephant in the room: potential biopersistence of short-chain PFAS

5 years 7 months ago
Maricel Maffini, Ph.D., Consultant and Tom Neltner, J.D., Chemicals Policy Director In January 2018, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists published a peer-reviewed journal article stating a commonly used raw material to make greaseproof paper is likely to persist in the human body. FDA scientists’ sophisticated analysis and remarkable conclusion raises questions about the broad assumption […]
Tom Neltner

Interview: Dr. Leonardo Trasande, Author of Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future and What We Can Do About It

5 years 7 months ago

Written by Ronnie Citron-Fink

Of the 80,000 chemicals currently used in the US, most haven’t been tested for their effects on our health. These chemicals are everywhere. They lurk in things our children come in contact with every single day: furniture, toys, cleaning products, personal care products, and our...

Ronnie Citron-Fink