Safer Chemicals for California

Keeping Drugs Out of Our Waterways: Safe Drug Disposal Program

Clean Water has joined with local government, wastewater professionals, senior citizen advocates, and those concerned with drug abuse to stop unused or out of date drugs from getting into the environment or into the hands of those who will misuse them.

Chemical Policy Reform

Did you know that there are approximately 80,000 chemicals in commercial use but that in the U.S. little toxicity information is required to bring a chemical or product containing chemicals to market?

Firefighters using PFAS fire fighting foam
Toxic Chemicals

Watch Our Short Film to Learn More About the PFAS -- the "Forever Chemical"

What are PFAS?

2022 California PFAS Legislation
Toxic Chemicals

What We Don't Know CAN Hurt us: Tell Your California Senator to take action on PFAS

We need your help to pass innovative legislation that identifies sources of PFAS into California's environment and restricts their use at the sourc

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From We All Live Downstream

Clean Water Action is proud to co-sponsor Assemblymember Richard Bloom's AB 2247 - because we have t
Knowledge is Power and PFAS is Forever. California needs to pass AB 2447!
California
August 9, 2022

We know virtually everyone has PFAS in their bodies. We know that testing has detected these toxic chemicals in drinking water sources serving 16 million Californians. We know PFAS can be in our air, our soil, our food, and our homes and workplaces. But we don’t know a lot about how they enter the state so we struggle to manage them. That’s why we need to pass AB 2247 (Bloom) and require anyone importing a product into California that contains PFAS to report it.

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