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January 2023: A Big Bet on Clean Chips

In this edition:

  • Avoiding Harmful Chemicals Using the Essential-Use Approach
  • PFAS in Your Home… and Your Mouth?
  • An Unwanted Ingredient: Chlorinated Paraffins
  • New Year, New Laws, Healthier Products
  • Green Science Policy Institute in the News

December 2022: Toxic-free Trees and Guiltless Gifts

In this edition:

  • Healthy Holiday Shopping Guide
  • Who Wrote the WHO Guidelines?
  • A Toxic-Free Christmas Tree
  • Are Teflon Pans Safe to Use?
  • The Proof is in the Dust
  • Green Science Policy Institute in the News

October 2022: Victory! Cleaner Clothes and Cosmetics

In this edition:

  • Flame Retardants Beware! Out of Our Couches!
  • Plaid, Pleated, and PFAS-Treated?
  • Is There PFAS Contamination in Your Neighborhood?
  • The (Fake) Grass isn’t Greener
  • Your Comments: Draft WHO Report on PFAS
  • Green Science Policy Institute in the News
  • Calendar

September 2022: My PFAS Blood Results...

In this edition:

  • Join Me: The Most Important Thing for Our Health
  • Our PFAS Blood Levels, Revealed
  • New PFAS Cleanup Method: Hope or Hype?
  • New Research on Flame Retardant Harms
  • Welcome Our New Operations Director Fred Spitz
  • Green Science Policy Institute in the News
  • Calendar

July 2022: All (Toxic) Things Considered

In this edition:

  • Are There Batteries in Your Smoke Detector?
  • Your Hairstyle Will Last Long, the PFAS Will Last Longer
  • Making Sense of EPA’s New PFAS Health Advisories
  • Are Your Tires Killing Salmon?
  • Green Science Policy Institute in the News
  • Calendar

June 2022: The Cash-Climate-Chemical Connection

In this edition:

  • Government Websites Obfuscate PFAS Health Risks
  • Thousands of Potentially Harmful Chemicals in Food Packaging
  • A Planetary Boundary for Pollution
  • Green Science Policy Institute in the News
  • Calendar

April 2022: The Biggest Best Ban

In this edition:

  • Why are Flame Retardants in Children’s Car Seats?
  • From Beagles to the Bay—Pet Pesticide Pollution (Updated)
  • Stopping PFAS: How Best to Test?
  • Breathe Easy with Better Building Products
  • Our Institute in the News
  • Calendar

March 2022: PFAS Harms You Haven't Heard About?

In this edition:

  • Legal victories in the EU: Healthier Products and Planet
  • PTFE: Producing Toxic Fluorochemicals?
  • Healthier Affordable Housing Leads the Way
  • The “One Health” Approach and “One Planet” Progress
  • Building Awareness of PFAS
  • Calendar

February 2022: Study Invite: Are there flame retardants in your car?

In this edition:

  • Study Invite: Are There Flame Retardants in Your Car?
  • Toxic Flame Retardants in Tents
  • How Plastics Make Us Fat
  • Waterproof, Stain-Resistant, & Toxic: Forever Chemicals Identified in Dozens of Products
  • Calendar

January 2022: PFAS in Sea & Spectacles Spray?

In this edition:

  • Mist Connection: Concerning Levels of PFAS in Anti-Fogging Products
  • Are there “Forever Chemicals” in Your Kitchen Counter?
  • Making the Most of PFAS Central
  • European Chemicals Agency publishes first set of assessments for chemical groups
  • Calendar

December 2021: Chanukah, Christmas, & Chemicals

In this edition:

  • Healthy Holiday Shopping Guide
  • PFAS Legislation Roundup 2021
  • Misleading Chemical Claims Need to Go
  • Why Such High Levels of PFAS in New Zealand Dolphins?
  • A Toxic-Free Christmas Tree
  • Calendar

October 2021: PFAS Beware! The Comedians are Coming!

In this edition:

  • Third Time's a Charm? Toxic Tris Still in Cars
  • Common Chemicals in Electronics and Baby Products Harm Brain Development
  • Thousands of PFAS, Hundreds of Contaminated Sites, One Home for Data
  • Scientists Urge EPA to Close PFAS Loopholes
  • Purchasing Fire-Safe & Healthier Furniture
  • Antimicrobials in Building Products: Why?
  • CALENDAR