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We're down to the wire in Maryland

March 12, 2013
We’re down to the wire. Industry has defeated the Maryland Pesticide Reporting Act three times . If we want a win, we need to use our outside voices, and we need to use them now. Moms across Maryland are worried about the impact of dangerous toxic chemicals on their families’ health. We’ve got a...
Claire Moshenberg's picture

Insisting on the Right-to-Know Pesticides in Maryland

March 8, 2013
You would think getting a sane right-to-know bill passed in the Maryland legislature right now would be a done deal—right? Not so much. Industry opposition has killed a safe, sane and not-at-all burdensome Pesticide Reporting and Information Act, currently being considered by Maryland legislators, the three previous times it’s been introduced. Our public health and environmental experts, who are working to protect us, have been denied data to help them determine which pesticides may be impacting our children’s health and our waterways. This bill will provide them with that knowledge.
Ruth Berlin's picture

Are We Sending Our Kids Mixed Messages on Junk Food in Schools?

March 7, 2013
In today’s MomsRising blog carnival on junk-free schools, you’ll be reading about all kinds of ways to make sure snacks and other foods sold in schools are better for our kids. But we could be completely undermining those efforts without even realizing it – if we don’t start addressing another...
Manel Kappagoda's picture

Protecting Our Kids from Toxic Chemicals - CT is on the Brink of a Big Step

March 7, 2013
I remember very clearly the day I first learned that the vast majority of chemicals used in consumer products are unregulated by the government. Until that point I believed (as many people mistakenly do) that if I could buy it in a store it must have passed safety testing. Boy was I wrong. Out of...
Michelle Noehren's picture

Moving to Safety First, for Our Children's Health

March 5, 2013
[Crossposted from the Huffington Post ] When is a flame retardant not a flame retardant? When it is no more effective in retarding flames than, well, nothing. Since fire safety experts and government studies say that chemical flame retardants as they are used in many products are not effective,...
Charles Margulis's picture

The Forward on Climate Rally – a Mother’s Reflection

March 1, 2013
This past President’ Day my oldest child turned 18 and instead of celebrating his young adulthood with him, I was across the country standing on the National Mall with more than 40,000 strangers. While I may sound like an uncaring mom, the opposite is true. I’d gone to Washington DC precisely...
Diana Donlon's picture

Is Your Favorite Company Holding Out on You?

February 28, 2013
Same product. Two different labels. An appalling double standard when it comes to our health.
Cassidy Randall's picture

Green Tech Boom in South, Latino Communities

February 28, 2013
Knoxville, Tennessee...McAllen, Texas...Little Rock, Arkansas...Albuquerque, New Mexico...Los Angeles, California. Besides L.A., many of these southern U.S. cities wouldn’t normally be considered the center of a green tech revolution. Yet, they are, and are also employing large numbers of Latinos...
Elisa Batista's picture

Sequestration Affects Kids and Moms

February 27, 2013
By now you've heard that federal budget cuts will take effect on Friday. And you've heard the strange-sounding name for these cuts: sequestration. Sequestration means across-the-board spending cuts, and this sequester was written into law in August 2011 as a kind of terrible incentive for lawmakers...
Mattea Kramer's picture

Why Use a Bludgeon When a Calculator Will Do?

February 27, 2013
Sequestration is both an ugly word and hard to explain. As a budget wonk, I like to use this metaphor: It’s as if the American people are being squeezed into the back of a dilapidated Chevy pick-up. Careening down a dirt road, we’re headed for a brick wall. Try as we might to wake up from this...
Jo Comerford's picture

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