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Reproductive Justice and Toxics-free Beauty Products

BWW Environmental Justice program goals include increasing education and awareness among Black women & girls of our exposures to toxic chemicals, chemicals in our environment and share strategies to reduce our exposure. In 2017, this program outreached to 27 salons and cosmetology schools in South Los Angeles (each multiple times) speaking with beauty professionals, stylists and managers on exposures and protections from chemicals in beauty, cleaning and personal care products.[...] Read more »

Californian’s Cleaning Products Right to Know

Companies that manufacture and distribute certain finished cleaning products sold in California should be aware of California’s Cleaning Product Right to Know Act (“the Act”), passed in October 2017, which changes the requirements for product labels and corresponding websites. Such companies have until January 1, 2020 to update online information for each product and until January 1, 2021 to update product labels.[...] Read more »

The Fight to ban harmful pesticide in California – Chlorpyrifos

California, one of the nation’s largest agricultural states, announced plans Wednesday to ban the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos is inked to neurological problems in infants and children even as federal regulators have allowed the product to remain on the market. State health officials said their decision came amid growing evidence that the pesticide, which is used on crops such as oranges, grapes and almonds, “causes serious health effects in children and other sensitive populations at lower levels of exposure than previously understood.”[...] Read more »

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Exposure to Toxics in Every Day Products

CHANGE members at the Reproductive Health and the Environment Conference, 2018 Women are unknowingly exposed to hazardous chemicals on a daily basis.Women[…]Read More »

Modernizing the Green Chemistry Initiative Safer Consumer Products

From the outset of the Safer Consumer Products (SCP), environmental justice and worker health and safety advocates were concerned that the program could not, by design move fast enough upstream.[…]Read More »

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Enviro Health in the News

AB 756 Would Require All California Water Systems to Test for PFOA and PFOS Chemical

AB 756 Would Require All California Water Systems to Test for PFOA and PFOS Chemical Testing of all public water systems for toxic fluorinated chemical compounds has been introduced by Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-58th District-Bell Gardens) would require all public water systems – regardless of size — to monitor perfluorooctanic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfate (PFOS) chemicals.[…]Read More »

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Creating Economically Just and Environmentally Healthy Communities in California

Centering Environmental Health and Justice in our Work, Campaigns, and Policy Development.

Shifting the Paradigm of a Toxic Economy Towards a Restorative Economy

Advancing Strategies to Fundamentally Change the Paradigm of Chemicals Management, Leading to More Precautionary Models of Decision-Making.

Community-Driven Solutions will be at The Center of our New, Green Economy that Improves Community Health and Economic Well-Being

Building Bridges with other Social Justice Movement to Work in Intersection Towards a Toxics-Free Economy. A Just transition and Transformation of our Economy to one that is Restorative.

Ensuring Right-to-Know and Better Safety for Women Workers

Consumers and Workers Have the Right to Know

Right to Know Policy Platform

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