The Toxies

09/30/2015

Important action to take TODAY! Please find your senators on Facebook - http://govsm.com/w/Senate - and post the following:
I am very concerned about toxic chemicals. We need meaningful reform that truly advances protection for public health and the environment. The Udall-Vitter Bill (S. 697) is *not* the answer.

The bill suspends our state's ability to take action against potentially hazardous chemicals, leaving us unprotected for years as EPA conducts studies. It also makes it harder to stop imported products containing toxic chemicals banned in the US.

S.697 isn’t the answer. Post the following on your senators’ page now!
I am very concerned about toxic chemicals. We need meaningful reform that truly advances protection for public health and the environment. The Udall Vitter Bill is not the answer.

The bill suspends our state's ability to take action against potentially hazardous chemicals, leaving us unprotected for years as EPA conducts studies. It also makes it harder to stop imported products containing toxic chemicals banned in the US.

07/22/2015

Sweet! Our friends at Center for Environmental Health have put together a helping guide to buying safer office and residential furniture made without toxic flame retardant chemicals! Take THAT toxic flame retardants!

Flame Retardants Office Furniture Makers Are Moving Towards Safer Products. Download our new “Kicking Toxics Out Of The Office” e-guide and our 2015 list of manufacturers selling flame retardant-free office furniture. Residential Furniture Makers Are Also Moving Towards Safer Products- See which…

04/15/2015

This past year -- over 135,000 Walgreens customers nationwide have signed petitions calling on Walgreens to and phase out toxic chemicals in products.

GREAT NEWS! They are announcing their chemicals policy this spring. Call on them to adopt a policy that is as comprehensive and health protective as possible.

Good news – Walgreens developing a chemicals policy! | A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

03/09/2015

URGENT ACTION CALIFORNIANS! Please take a moment to call Senators Boxer (202) 224-3553 and Feinstein (202) 224-3841 TODAY about the draft Vitter-Udall bill on TSCA reform.
Thank them for their position thus far (both Senators, at the time of this writing, have not signed on to the bill) and for staying strong on protecting public health and California's progressive environmental laws.

Mr. Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico, has emerged as the chief Senate negotiator on legislation that would change how the government evaluates the safety of more than 80,000 chemicals.

11/15/2014

Beauty and its Beast -- Check out the new report on toxic chemicals and salon worker health, including tips for reducing exposure. Guess what our #1 tip pick is...NOT using products with toxic hazards in them! Thanks Women's Voices for the Earth!

This is the first report ever to document how nasty chemicals lurking in hair sprays, permanent waves, acrylic nail application and other salon products are harming the health of women who work in salons.

08/21/2014

Toxie Triclosan is showing up in the bodies of pregnant women and babies. He's so bad!

Half of newborns in a Brooklyn-based study were exposed in the womb to triclosan, a germ-killing chemical widely used in consumer products, researchers reported today at an annual meeting of chemists.

05/01/2014

Environmental Racism? Why is the Black population of chemical disaster zones 75% greater than the Black population of the whole U.S., and the Latino population 60% greater? Check out: Who's In Danger Race, Poverty, and Chemical Disasters, from the Environmental Justice and Health Alliance. http://bit.ly/1iyfN3C

An explosion and fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA caused 15,000 people to seek medical treatment in August...

04/22/2014

CEH supporters,

This Earth Day you can make a real difference by clicking the link below and opposing the dangerous Chemicals in Commerce Act. We are in it to win it until we defeat this legislation that would put all Americans in harm's way for generations to come. Join with us to defeat CICA now! http://ow.ly/w0DWs

04/17/2014

The Toxies are featured in the cover story of the special "Go Green" issue of the Pasadena Weekly! Perchlorate, TCE, and PCE are rampant through the entire San Gabriel valley, and perchlorate was actually invented in Pasadena.
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/?id=13001

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04/10/2014

Perchlorate in the desert

Andraski BJ, WA Jackson, TL Welborn, JK Bohlke, R Sevanthi, DA Stonestrom. 2014. Soil, plant, and terrain effects on natural perchlorate distribution in a desert landscape. Journal of Environmental Quality. doi:10.2134/jeq2013.11.0453

03/25/2014

The Toxies made a special guest appearance in Baldwin Park on March 22, 2014. The event was hosted by Congresswoman Grace Napolitano to discuss the status of the Baldwin Park Superfund site, as well as drinking water quality issues in the San Gabriel Valley. See http://www.toxies.com/2014/03/the-toxies-take-on-baldwin-park/ to read more about the event.

03/25/2014

Last Saturday Toxies TCE, Perchlorate, and PCE crashed a forum in Baldwin Park to discuss water quality in the San Gabriel Valley. The event, hosted by Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, served to update the community on efforts to treat the chemically contaminated Super Fund site. http://www.toxies.com/2014/03/the-toxies-take-on-baldwin-park/

The Toxies made a special guest appearance in Baldwin Park on March 22nd. The event was hosted by Congresswoman Grace Napolitano to discuss the status of the Baldwin Park Superfund site, as well as drinking water quality issues in the San Gabriel Valley.