You've probably seen a lot of talk in the news recently about the chemical, Bisphenol A, or BPA. Bans are now in place across the country, including Suffolk County NY, Chicago, IL and in the state of Minnesota. Companies like S.C. Johnson, Gerber, and Sonoco have stopped using the chemical in products intended for children.
You've probably seen a lot of talk in the news recently about the chemical, Bisphenol A, or BPA. Bans are now in place across the country, including Suffolk County NY, Chicago, IL and in the state of Minnesota. Companies like S.C. Johnson, Gerber, and Sonoco have stopped using the chemical in products intended for children.
This year, we have an opportunity make real progress toward building a new energy economy -- to reduce global warming pollution, create jobs and improve the quality of life in the Granite State. The New Hampshire Department of Transportation wants to re-introduce passenger rail service linking Concord, Hooksett, Manchester, Bedford (for the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport), Merrimack, and Nashua with Boston.
UPDATE: Since the release of our "No More Toxic Tub" report last month, people have been speaking out across the country to get toxic chemicals out of our bath and beauty products. A few members of Congress have called for stronger legislation, but we need to keep the pressure on! Send your representative a message and call for stronger regulation from the FDA.
We need your help to make our message clear. We need our elected officials to support strong regulation to get nasty contaminants like formaldehyde and 1,4 dioxane out of our bath and beauty products.
Congress recently voted on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As a result New Hampshire will receive funding that it can use for projects that will protect our waterways, invest in cleaner transportation initiatives- such as rail transit, and promote new energy solutions that address global warming and create jobs.
Thank your Representative and Senator Jeanne Shaheen for voting to pass this important legislation.
However, one of our Senators, Judd Gregg, did not vote at all. Write to Senator Judd Gregg and let him know you're disappointed that he didn't take a stand and didn't vote to support New Hampshire's clean energy future.
Our Zero Mercury Campaign was launched in 2000 to pressure the New England Governors to virtually eliminate the use of, the release of, and exposure to mercury, a dangerous neurotoxin, that has contaminated the fish that we eat, in New Hampshire and the region by the year 2010.
The New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers adopted a Climate Change Action Plan in August of 2001. The plan combats global warming by committing to near-term reductions of human-made greenhouse gas emissions over the course of the next two decades, as well as long-term reductions to 75-85% below current levels at some point.
Have you ever thought about what is in your cosmetics, sweet-smelling bath products or that lipstick your toddler loves to wear (and undoubtedly eat!)?
Believe it or not, as much as 70 percent of what we put on our skin ends up inside our bodies.* And yet many popular cosmetic, fragrance, and beauty products contain toxic ingredients like mercury, lead, or phthalates, which have been linked to reproductive and developmental issues.
Unfortunately, there is almost no safety or health regulation over these products, which most of us use every day.
