6th CFP Report Released

Companies with over $1 trillion in annual revenue report the reduction of 83 million pounds/38 million kilograms of hazardous chemicals in the 6th Chemical Footprint Project Report

Their leadership demonstrates progress towards meeting the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Download the Report Somerville, Massachusetts, USA: Today, Clean Production Action released the 6th Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Report.… …

Webinar:  GreenScreen Certified® for Medical Supplies & Devices

Hear from Kaiser Permanente, NewGenSurgical, and Clean Production Action about the first-ever GreenScreen Certified® Standard for the health care sector, a new tool to enable hospital purchasers to screen out common equipment and supplies… …

WANTED: HEALTHIER HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS

Research suggests that the presence of certain chemicals in some healthcare equipment can compromise the benefit of the treatment the equipment enables. For example, the presence of chemicals in intravenous equipment could reduce the effectiveness… …

Why getting PFAS out of our products is so hard — and why it matters

Though exposure through consumer products is a reasonable concern, there are two even larger facets of the problem, said Shari Franjevic, who leads the GreenScreen For Safer Chemicals program at the nonprofit Clean Production Action. One is how that… …

Find GreenScreen Certified® Products on Wayfair’s Shop Sustainably

Clean Production Action is excited to announce that GreenScreen Certified® is now one of the certification standards used by Wayfair to spotlight sustainable products offered on its platform. Through Wayfair’s Shop Sustainably offering,… …

Clean Production Action releases first-ever GreenScreen Certified®  Standard for the health care sector

New tool will enable hospital purchasers to easily identify environmentally preferable medical equipment and supplies

Somerville, MA, October 19, 2022 —Today the nonprofit Clean Production Action unveiled the first GreenScreen Certified® Standard for Medical Supplies & Devices, laying out detailed criteria equipment manufacturers must meet to prove… …

Newsletter: September 20, 2022

Welcome our new Director of IEHN, CFP Program Manager, & Technical Researcher to CPA

We are very excited to announce new members to our Clean Production Action (CPA) team: Alexandra McPherson returns to be the Director of the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) Dr. Angela Pinilla steps in as our new Chemical Footprint… …

Newsletter: September 14, 2022

CPA and CEH join forces to host BizNGO 2022

Clean Production Action (CPA) welcomes the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) as a co-host of BizNGO’s 17th Annual Meeting on December 6-7, 2022. BizNGO is a trusted forum for open and honest discussions across businesses, advocacy… …

Newsletter: September 7, 2022

GreenScreen training open for registration & new GreenScreen Certified® firefighting foam products

* An earlier version of this newsletter sent on September 2nd improperly named the company with three new GreenScreen Certified® firefighting foam products as Tyco Fire Products LP instead of the correct company, Perimeter Solutions LP. Are you… …

With regulatory risks on the rise for toxic chemicals, investors commend discount retailers Five Below and Dollar General for new commitments to chemical safety

SOMERVILLE, Mass.: The Presbyterian Church (U.S.) and Trinity Health withdrew shareholder resolutions in response to Dollar General’s and Five Below’s commitments to expand and improve chemical safety programs. This comes at a time when… …