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Defend Our Health We're about safe food and drinking water, and products that are toxic-free and climate friendly. Imagine healthy people, thriving in a healthy economy.

Imagine a world where parents don't have to worry that toxic chemicals in drinking water, groceries, furniture, and products throughout the home are making their children sick. A world where frightening diseases don't spread more quickly because the climate's warming. A world with decreasing rates of autism, learning disabilities, asthma, allergies infertility, and cancer. That's the world we're working for—with help from people like you.

Reminder: For Maine's election, OCTOBER 27 is the last recommended day to mail your mail-in/absentee ballot via USPS. If...
10/14/2026

Reminder: For Maine's election, OCTOBER 27 is the last recommended day to mail your mail-in/absentee ballot via USPS. If you have not mailed your ballot by this time, the Secretary of State recommends that you deliver it to your town office or a ballot drop box. If you cannot deliver your ballot, you can vote in person at your municipal office through Oct. 29 or vote in person at the polls on Election Day.

Our 2026 voter guide breaks down races, dives into who’s funding candidates, answers common questions and more.

States can and are fixing this, with national benefit to all!
10/11/2026

States can and are fixing this, with national benefit to all!

Safer solutions already exist! Using hazardous chemicals and plastics is an active, harmful CHOICE and companies choosin...
10/09/2026

Safer solutions already exist! Using hazardous chemicals and plastics is an active, harmful CHOICE and companies choosing that path are on notice - move to safer solutions or face the legal and financial consequences for deliverately exposing consumers to hazardous chemicals.

Plastics are everywhere, and a new report finds that 93% of the plastic chemicals used to make food packaging, clothes, toys, and other common household items pose high risks to human health.

Washington Department of Ecology can help turn the tide by phasing out some of the most problematic plastics, especially PVC and PVDC packaging.

Safer alternatives exist. We shouldn’t wait years to act.

Read more from CNN at the link in comments.

10/09/2026

Plastic incineration and melting plastic into a toxic goo are not and should never be called recycling! The solution to plastic pollution is --> stop making so much plastic to begin with!

We've been told that the plastic literally flooding our communities is "necessary" and "unavoidable" and "safe" but the ...
10/06/2026

We've been told that the plastic literally flooding our communities is "necessary" and "unavoidable" and "safe" but the opposite is true! Most plastic use is unnecessary, very avoidable, and quite toxic - read this report from our partners on PVC plastic packaging and what we can do right now to quit this hazardous material!

That clear hard plastic packaging hanging on the shelves at The Home Depot. It may look like harmless plastic, but it's not.

A new investigation traces PVC blister packaging on Home Depot’s shelves to the hidden cost of toxic pollution, cancer risk, and the suffering of contaminated communities from Texas to Louisiana.

This isn’t just packaging. It’s a trail of poison plastic.

Follow the trail in this new investigative StoryMap: https://bit.ly/poisonplastic

International Monitor Formosa Plastics Alliance
RISE ST. JAMES
San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper
Environment Texas
The Home Depot
Formosa Plastics Corporation, USA
Energy Transfer

09/30/2026
09/29/2026

On top of air pollution, data centers are contributing to a precipitous rise in forever chemical and crude oil discharge.

We can use the information required in California disclosures to enforce reporting and sales ban laws in Maine!
09/29/2026

We can use the information required in California disclosures to enforce reporting and sales ban laws in Maine!

If you're in NY, give the governor a call!
09/28/2026

If you're in NY, give the governor a call!

If you don't live in Maine (where PFAS is banned from cosmetics), check out these tips!
09/25/2026

If you don't live in Maine (where PFAS is banned from cosmetics), check out these tips!

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Portland, ME
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