Letters / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
We applaud the latest effort at finding a bi-partisan solution to the antiquated and health-damaging current federal law regulating chemicals, we do not support S. 697 because it will not protect workers, families and children from toxic chemicals.
Research / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
The Ban Poisonous Additives (BPA) Act of 2014, introduced by Sen. Edward Markey, D‐Mass., and Reps. Lois Capps, D-Calif. and Grace Meng, D-N.Y., will remove BPA from food packaging, label food packaging that still contains BPA.
Letters / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
View our letters of support for the Ban Poisonous Additives Act that would remove bisphenol a (BPA) from food packaging and encourage manufacturers to replace this hazardous chemical with alternatives that are safer for workers and consumers.
Blog / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
All of us have complicated relationships with our mothers. But most of us don’t have the blend of grace, talent and chutzpah to display that relationship in an award-winning documentary.
Letters / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
BlueGreen Alliances urges members of Congress to oppose draft legislation that undercuts chemicals safety and asks the House Energy and Commerce Committee to undertake the critical task of responsibly legislating chemicals reform.
Testimony / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
The BlueGreen Alliance offered comments from Executive Director David Foster in support of a Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to limit worker exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
Research / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Climate change is changing the way we live—and the way we work. With greater temperature and precipitation extremes, more severe storms, and changing weather patterns, we are encountering new challenges—and more serious hazards—in the workplace.