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Cattermole Consulting
The BizNGO conference, hosted by Clean Production Action, was mainly about Chemical Footprinting…
GOJO Announces Its 2020 Sustainability Goals at BizNGO
December 08, 2015
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GOJO Industries
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A 10-year checkup on the quest to detox commercial products In the last 50 years, manmade…
Chemical Footprint Project Welcomes $2.1 trillion and more in support!
November 20, 2015
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Contents: Transatlantic partnership attracts over $2.1 trillion in support Health care…
GreenScreen® in International Electronics Sustainability Standard
November 10, 2015
11/11/2015
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GreenScreen® in Hewlett Packard case study
October 31, 2015
October 2015
Chemical Watch
Excerpt from Safer Chemicals in the Supply Chain-Hewlett Packard: strong awareness "The…
California Regulations & Alternatives Assessment - New Report & Webinar Today
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New Report! How to use GreenScreen for LEED v4
October 22, 2015
New "How to" Guide Provides Manufacturers with Clear Guidance on Meeting Latest LEED…
GreenBiz Blog: So long toxics: A builder’s guide to safer chemicals
October 21, 2015
10/21/2015
GreenBiz
Excerpt from the GreenBiz article: Health experts long have recognized the risks of individual…
How to use GreenScreen® in LEED v4 Press Release
October 20, 2015
10/21/2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 21, 2015 Contact: Glenn Turner, 917-817-3396,…
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October 19, 2015
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BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference, Dec. 8-9, 2015, Boston UN Our Planet magazine features…
Job Opportunities, Save the Date, and Mark Rossi in the Boston Globe
September 08, 2015
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Job Announcements Clean Production Action is now hiring for two new positions: GreenScreen®…
GreenBiz Blog: The $1.1 trillion question: What’s your chemical footprint?
June 19, 2015
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GreenBiz
Look no further than the financial and reputational travails of Lumber Liquidators for a stark…
$1.1 trillion in assets under management and purchasing power sign on to CFP!
June 19, 2015
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Somerville, MA [June 19, 2015] — You’ve heard of a company’s carbon footprint.…
GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals is Science at its Best: Open source and Transparent
May 26, 2015
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We live in an age of increasing transparency. The public expects more online information and…
Trending Topics: Hazard? Risk? Do you know the difference?
May 07, 2015
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A subject that comes up frequently in the context of managing and choosing chemicals,…
NGO platform: TSCA, REACH and the downstream user
April 16, 2015
April 2015
Chemical Watch
Click here to read the new article written by Dr. Mark Rossi on Chemical Watch.
Treading lightly with chemicals
April 07, 2015
March 2015
Chemical Watch
A new tool, the Chemical Footprint Project (CFP), aims to establish meaningful measurement of…
GreenScreen® Newsletter - April 6, 2015: Greetings from the GreenScreen® Team
April 06, 2015
4/6/2015
Thank you all for the continued support and interest in GreenScreen. Do you have questions on how…
Practitioner Program and Webinar Announcement
March 24, 2015
Lead the way in sustainable chemicals management with our most advanced training in the…
A Framework to Guide Selection of Chemical Alternatives
February 17, 2015
National Research Council
Concerns about the health and environmental impacts associated with some chemical products and…
GreenScreen® Newsletter - January 26, 2015
January 29, 2015
1/26/2015
Greetings from the GreenScreen® Team We hope there are great things in store for you in…
GreenScreen Practitioner Program Accepting Applications for May 2015
January 29, 2015
ENROLLING NOW FOR MAY 2015 Clean Production Action (CPA) is now accepting applications to the May…
Press Release: Chemical Footprint Project Launch
December 08, 2014
12/8/2014
New Tool Launched Today Measures Corporate Progress Towards Safer Chemicals Third-Party Benchmark…
Shifting FR Markets
November 17, 2014
The FRs market is experiencing a massive transformation in chemistry. As of 2013, bromine…
Firemaster
November 16, 2014
One of the most studied of the new FRs is Firemaster 550—a bromine and phosphorous-based…
New & Emerging BFRs–Where are the tox data?
November 16, 2014
But what are manufacturers offering instead of decaBDE and HBCD, also on the phase out pathway…
BFRs in Electronics & Electrical Devices
October 31, 2014
Electronics and electrical devices account for 50% of global brominated flame retardant (BFR)…
Alternatives: Are FRs Necessary?
October 24, 2014
A critical approach to chemicals in products in general and plastics in particular is to ask: Is…
Four GreenScreen® Sessions at GreenBuild 2014
October 20, 2014
Dear Colleagues, I am looking forward to seeing many of you at GreenBuild, and want to invite you…
Whack-a-chemical
October 16, 2014
Government policies drive, somewhat ironically, both the use and restriction of FRs.…
Facts on Flame Retardants
October 10, 2014
Global consumption in 2012: 3.9 billion pounds (lbs). With consumption expected to increase to…
Health Effects of Flame Retardants (FRs)
October 10, 2014
FRs and their adverse health effects are a seemingly ubiquitous topic in scientific journals.…
Chemical Manufacturers Increase Production of Non-Phthalate Plasticizers
October 03, 2014
Reflecting market movement away from phthalates, both BASF (DINCH plasticizer) and Eastman…
Strategies for Identifying Safer Alternatives to Plasticizers
October 03, 2014
The solution to hazardous plasticizers like DEHP is not necessarily another plasticizer. The…
Solutions to Hazardous Plasticizers
October 01, 2014
The dominant movement in the marketplace is to alternative plasticizers to DEHP and other…
Recent Studies—Health Effects of Phthalates
September 25, 2014
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel (CHAP) on Phthalates…
Databases on chemicals legislation
September 21, 2014
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September 19, 2014
It’s now the law in: Vermont: Act No. 188 (S 239) requires manufacturers of…
Flame retardant & PBT (persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic) restrictions continue to prosper
September 19, 2014
It’s now the law in: Maryland: HB 229 bans children’s products containing the flame…
California to ban plastic bags
September 19, 2014
9/5/14
Coming soon: California: SB 270 would make the State the first to enact a statewide ban on…
Assessing progress in greening electronics
September 12, 2014
9/3/14
Greenpeace
According to the latest Greenpeace report, brands are making progress in reducing polyvinyl…
Health care wants furniture without unneeded flame retardants
September 12, 2014
9/10/14
Health Care Without Harm
Brominated and other flame retardants are losing the health care market. Four health care…
Target and Walmart cleaning up the supply chain?
September 12, 2014
9/8/14
GreenBiz
The two US retail giants joined together with their supply chain last week in Chicago at the…
Is edible packaging sustainable?
September 04, 2014
2014
Some novel innovations aimed at reducing waste have been garnering attention this summer,…
Washington State initiates action on PCBs as concern grows about contamination in pigments and dyes
September 04, 2014
While the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) banned new production and most uses of…
Cleaning up the supply chain: Apple limits hazardous chemicals in manufacturing
September 04, 2014
9/1/14
Apple placed restrictions on benzene, beryllium, n-hexane, trichloroethylene (TCE), and other…
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