Archive for February 2020
Holding Corporations Accountable for Contamination: The Role of Litigation, Regulation, and Research to Address the PFAS Problem
A growing body of evidence indicates per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widespread and long-lived in our environment, common in people’s bodies, and harmful to our health. This class of “forever chemicals” has few regulations, and those that do exist permit far greater levels of PFAS exposure than current research findings deem safe. In our…
Read MoreEliminating Toxic Chemicals from the Child Care Setting (Presentation in Spanish)
We recently recorded a presentation entitled Eliminating Toxic Chemicals from the Child Care Setting in Spanish. The speaker, Samarys Seguinot Medina, Dr.PH. is the Environmental Health Program Director at Alaska Community Action on Toxics. The presentation discusses the growing body of science linking exposure to flame retardants (and other chemicals) in children’s products and child care…
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