The Things We Cannot See: A celebration of Earth Month

Earth Month arrived quietly that morning, like a whisper against the window.   A mother stood in her kitchen, sunlight stretching across the counter where her child’s breakfast waited—fruit in a plastic bowl, cereal in a brightly… …

The Chemical Footprint of Inequality Is Measurable—and Preventable

Chemical injustice is often discussed in moral terms. It is equally a scientific problem—one that can be quantified, traced, and, crucially, prevented. Decades of research show that hazardous chemical exposures in the United States are not… …

A Call to Action for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

“Justice Is Not Abstract—It Is Chemical.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Today, we add: toxic injustice is no exception. Hazardous chemicals do not… …

Safer cosmetics for women of color start with transparency about chemical footprints

Investors are increasingly scrutinizing companies for environmental, social and ethical considerations. In addition to closer scrutiny of companies’ carbon and water footprints, a third mark of consideration is emerging: their chemical… …

GreenScreen® Update: Resolving Challenges with Chemical Groups in Automation of List Translator™

The blog will discuss the challenges that arise with applying the GreenScreen List Translator method in an automated tool, the impact of those challenges, and how those challenges are being addressed.   Background A growing number of… …

A conversation with Shari Franjevic, GreenScreen® Program Manager on the updated method

Last week CPA released a new and updated GreenScreen method (version 1.4) to address chemicals, polymers and products. Why did you and your team do this? Since its launch in 2007, GreenScreen has gone through several revisions, but this update to… …

Determining Chemical Hazard in a World of Incomplete Information: GreenScreen’s New Benchmark Review Process

GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals (GreenScreen) was launched by Clean Production Action (CPA) in 2007. Since then, GreenScreen has become the globally recognized tool for chemical hazard assessment used by major corporations, governments and… …

Businesses are responding to demand for chemical transparency

It’s been over 30 years since the U.S. Community Right to Know Act was passed in 1986. At the time, the idea that companies publicly would report their emissions of toxic chemicals to a Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) seemed far-reaching, yet… …

The Plastics BAN List

On November 3, 2016 Clean Production Action together with Five Gyres, Upstream and Surfrider Foundation released the Plastics BAN (Better Alternatives Now) List report. This report highlights the growing problem of plastic waste in the ocean and the… …

Know your chemicals: GreenScreen® 2017 trainings & more

GreenScreen® 2017 training schedule is here Latest GreenScreen news Featured in Chemical Watch Presenting at Kingpins Transformers Conference toxnot.com provides new software platform  GreenScreen® 2017 training… …