Celebrating new protections taking effect in 2024
If there's one thing better than winning the passage of a new law, it's seeing the new law begin to improve the quality of people's lives and our environment.
Few things are more important than keeping kids safe and healthy. Working together, we can protect them from hidden dangers, toxic threats and unsafe products and practices.
We all work hard to make sure the young ones in our lives and communities can grow up happy and healthy. In many ways the world is safer than it has ever been for kids — but there are still way too many avoidable risks and hidden dangers that kids face every day. Together, we can better alert parents and communities about threats to kids’ health; we can ensure everyone has access to resources that will help them keep their families safe; and we can work together around commonsense solutions.
If there's one thing better than winning the passage of a new law, it's seeing the new law begin to improve the quality of people's lives and our environment.
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With research indicating that most states are failing to protect children from lead in schools’ drinking water, we need policies that are strong enough to “get the lead out” at schools and preschools.
Instagram can be bad for teens, particularly young women. After requesting my data from Instagram, I could see why.
Thirty years after Red Dye #3 was banned from use in cosmetics, this toxic additive is still being used to, for example, make freeze pops a brighter red. That's nuts.
For a year, groups have called on REI to set a timeline to phase out these chemicals due to the harm they cause to public health and the environment in their production, use and disposal.
The vaping company is set to shell out millions to settle a probe into its alleged marketing targeting teens.
Consumer Watchdog, PIRG
State Director, Maryland PIRG; Director, Stop Toxic PFAS Campaign, PIRG
Public Health Advocate, CoPIRG