Archive for the ‘BPA’ Category

The Maine DEP has proposed to designate bisphenol A as the first Priority Chemical under the Kid-Safe Products Act and take other actions to protect the health of Maine children. The proposed rule would: Designate BPA as a Priority Chemical under the KSPA; Ban the use of BPA in reusable food and beverage containers, effective [...]

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Our state has an impressive record of leadership when it comes to protecting our health. In 2008, the Maine State Legislature passed the “Kids Safe Products Act” – and now,  after a lot of hard work by people like you, the law is finally ready to be fully implemented with the State set to ban [...]

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Congresswoman Pingree speaks about TSCA reform on the floor – check it out!

Yesterday a crowd of nearly 50 gathered at the Maine Women’s Policy Center and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s showing of the “Story of Cosmetics.” The film covered the prevalence of toxic chemicals in personal care products and touched on our need to reform the chemical safety system. Check it out right now – [...]

What lies ahead for the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010? Check out this exclusive “leaked” footage for insight into what would happen if the Toxic Chemical Lobby got it their way!

The environmental working group unearths the truth behind some of our favorite products in this compelling video: Want to learn more? The Maine Women’s Policy Center & Planned Parenthood of Northern New England will be co-hosting an event July 26th in Portland. Contact asheldon@mainewomen.org to RSVP.

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Introduced in April, the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 would amend the federal Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA). The current TSCA law is widely understood to be ineffective. When TSCA passed, it ‘grandfathered’ in 62,000 chemicals in use without restriction or testing. In more than 30 years since then, the U.S. EPA has [...]

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This Tuesday- February 23, 2010 from 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM Help the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine protect children, workers, and neighbors from toxic chemicals. Get the toxic Deca flame retardant out of plastic shipping pallets to keep it out of our food supply. Keep toxic products out of landfills and incinerators. [...]

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That’s the message that the Maine Women’s Lobby and the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine is trying to send to all people and policy-makers in Maine. Throughout the past 2 weeks this giant baby bottle has been traveling across the state. In the photos below, a group of children from a local daycare [...]


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  • Linda Mitchell: Make Lilly Right is a campaign, started by two women in Seattle, to get one million women to each se [...]
  • Lynne: Thank you for a terrific, inspiring event that showed us once again that one strong woman can make a [...]
  • Jason Sabo: If this issue is important to you, please take several minutes to join SafePhaseOut.org, a website d [...]
  • Kathleen Skillings: I would like to take this opportunity to address the editorial I read in yesterdays news. As a smal [...]
  • Donna Maria Coles Johnson: Interesting comment from Emily Caswell. I am not a resident of Maine, but I do buy natural personal [...]