This toolkit is to provide communities with the tools necessary for protecting their children’s health by organizing for the passage of safe school siting policies. This toolkit is based on the lessons we have learned over the past 28 years of working with communities to fight back polluting facilities, build relationships with elected officials, and run successful local, regional, and national campaigns to end toxic chemical exposure.
This is a back-to-school wallet guide for PVC-Free School Supplies designed to empower you in making smarter, healthier shopping choices for your children.
This report analyzes Target’s sale of products containing PVC by focusing on three key areas: baby / children’s products and toys, shower curtains, and packaging. These three areas were selected because Target sells many of these products that are made out of PVC. Target customers may be exposed to highly toxic chemicals from using these products in their homes.
This report reveals evidence about how the chemical industry has methodically and strategically attempted to influence policy makers and conceal from and mislead the public about the health impacts of dioxin.
This infographic compares which plastics are safer to use.
This report summarizes the results of a two-part laboratory study of the toxic chemicals contained in and released from PVC shower curtains. The first part of this study measures the concentration of chlorine, phthalates, organotins, and metals in five PVC shower curtains and VOCs in one curtain purchased at popular retailers. The second part measures the concentrations of VOCs evaporating from a shower curtain in a test chamber over a 28-day period.
This is a book about the American people and the communities they live in. Its stories come from urban apartment dwellers in Newark, New Jersey, farmers in Quincy, Washington, school teachers in Pensacola, Florida and from Lois Gibb's experience as a housewife in the Love Canal community, near Niagara Falls, New York. What connects Gibb's life to the lives of all the people and communities in this book is their common exposure to the chemical dioxin.
The impetus for this report is to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Superfund and assess the status of the Superfund program at this critical juncture.
The guide lists the most common consumer products made out of PVC and safer PVC-free alternatives. It is designed to empower you to make smarter, healthier shopping choices for your family, home and environment.
This report is the third report in the "Invisible Threats, Visible Actions" series. CHEJ and CPOC updated Creating Safe Learning Zones for this report to include a state-by-state analysis and summary of rules and regulations that apply to school siting decisions. We also further refined the model school siting guidelines to include guidance for school districts that have no available options other than to build a school on a highly contaminated site. We also provide guidance to evaluate and remediate contaminated land to the most protective standards possible.
