Healthy Legacy

03/03/2023

Manufacturers want to "follow the science" on - great! These chemicals are highly toxic and we aren't going to wait for Minnesotans to get sick from every single one before we act to protect our health.

A batch of bills that would limit or ban the use of PFAS chemicals in Minnesota cleared its first legislative hurdle Thursday.PFAS chemicals have a long hist...

02/10/2023

Remember: plastic = fossil fuels

The same industry and companies polluting our climate with carbon emissions, are polluting our water, land, and bodies with plastic pollution, and toxic chemicals.

"More than 1/2 of the world's single-use plastic waste can be traced directly to just 20 petrochemical companies."

02/03/2023

Did you know? When garbage with is incinerated, the chemicals aren't destroyed, but dispersed in the air up to 150 miles or more!

The is an environmental injustice in its North Mpls neighborhood, and a toxic health threat to the whole metro and beyond.

This Sunday at 2, come learn more and join the community planning to !

Food and childcare provided, please RSVP: https://bit.ly/feb5herc

Join our allies at .ej.table to protect the air we breathe! This Sunday, come to a petition launch event at Zion Baptist Church from 2pm-4pm. Together we'll call on Hennepin County commissioners to shut down the Minneapolis trash burner. Impacted community members will lead this meeting, we will discuss their demands, and we will make a plan. Food and childcare will be provided.

Hosted by Minnesota Environmental Justice Table

Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaT4Qk7QDweR524FJtpEbGHXQ-U54I-AdVQ6rGgqoeAL-GIA/viewform

01/18/2023

What should parents and teachers do to help kids who have been exposed to lead?

Tune in tomorrow at 6pm CT to hear about strategies for support and join the Q&A, or register to receive the recording: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5HatM9E0R86brPIPc-vCwQ

Check out these upcoming (FREE!) webinars you don't want to miss:
** Learning Strategies for Children who have been Exposed to Lead
** Understanding Least Restrictive Environment for Students with LD
** Engaging Reluctant Readers During Reading Month
Learn more and register today! - https://mailchi.mp/6bfac9492cec/upcoming-webinars-you-dont-want-to-miss

01/03/2023

Burning waste for energy spreads the toxic chemicals from the plastic into the air we breathe - it's not a solution to whether it's in Thailand or the HERC in North Mpls.

We need Amazon.com and other retailers to stop selling us a story about plastic recycling, and take real responsibility for their packaging and its disposal:

12/31/2022

In MN we won a ban on in food packaging in 2021 that will take effect a year from now - but these 'forever chemicals' are still in the plastic containers of tens of millions of products (and they're not staying in the plastic...)

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/27/lawsuit-houston-company-inhance-forever-chemicals-pfas

PFAS chemicals have been found on the inner and outer surfaces of millions of common plastic containers as well as the contents. PEER and Center for Environmental Health are seeking an injunction against Inhance Technologies from generating PFAS in the manufacture of these containers, in violation of EPA regulations.

Read our release: http://ow.ly/hpPe50McXk0

12/21/2022

Today's news from 3M on ending production is one step in the right direction, but it does not address the existing and ongoing harm to people, communities, and environments from decades of toxic pollution.

"The taxpayers and innocent victims of this contamination should not be paying to clean up the mess 3M caused”

"Internal 3M documents obtained through lawsuits show the company has known about the chemicals’ dangers for decades, but ignored, delayed, minimized and obscured research that raised red flags about the chemicals, stifling scientific research.

"In the 1950s, 3M scientists discovered the chemicals were accumulating in the bodies of humans and animals. By the early 1960s, 3M knew the chemicals didn’t degrade in the environment. And by the 1970s, the company knew its chemicals were widely present in the blood of most Americans."

3M announced Tuesday that it will stop manufacturing a group of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) and work to stop using the chemicals in its products by the end of 2025.

10/31/2022

"Some contact with environmental toxins is inevitable given the proliferation of plastics and chemical pollutants, as well as America’s hands off regulatory approach, but exposure is unequal.

"In the US, communities of color, Indigenous people and low income families are far more likely to be exposed to a myriad of pollutants through unsafe housing and water, manufacturing and agricultural jobs, and proximity to roads and polluting industrial plants, among other hazards."

Doctors warn exposure to omnipresent yet poorly understood chemicals such as microplastics could play a role in dementia