Webinar: GreenScreen Certified® PFAS-free and Preferred Food Service Ware

View an informative and engaging webinar on GreenScreen Certified®: PFAS-free and Preferred Food Service Ware. The groundbreaking certification program sets a new safety standard for everyday items like disposable plates and bowls that… …

The race to replace persistent chemicals in our homes

We'll also have to learn how to handle alternatives to many other PFAS-containing items, such as firefighting foams. Non-PFAS products perform differently to PFAS-containing aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) when fighting gas and oil fires, but… …

GreenScreen Certified® for Cleaners & Degreasers in Manufacturing launched

Promoting innovation in safer chemicals use in the global electronics sector and beyond

Somerville, MA—Today, Clean Production Action released GreenScreen Certified® for Cleaners & Degreasers in Manufacturing to promote safer chemical use and innovation in the electronics sector and beyond. Industrial cleaners and… …

Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure Webinar

Clean Production Action (CPA) and the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2) hosted a discussion on July 14th at 3:00-4:00pm EDT of the just released Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure.

Over 100 businesses, governments, health care organizations, investors, and non-governmental organizations have endorsed the six Principles. Learn: What are the Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure. Why organizations developed and endorsed… …

Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure

Endorsed by over 100 business, government, health care, investor, and NGO leaders

Contacts: Kayla Williams, Clean Production Action, kayla@cleanproduction.org, +1.781.391.6743 x120 Terri Goldberg, Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse, tgoldberg@newmoa.org, +1.617.367.8558 x302   Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure… …

GreenScreen Certified® Firefighting Foam v2.1 Webinar

View presentations by and a discussion with Arlene Nuñez, Holly Davies, and Shari Franjevic on the value of PFAS-free firefighting foam and GreenScreen Certified®. Arlene Nuñez is an active firefighter with the San Francisco Fire… …

Newsletter: June 21, 2021

There’s still time! Register for Firefighting Foam webinar and participate in Chemical Footprint Project 2021 Survey External Inbox

Hello, Here are two important reminders from Clean Production Action: GSC FFF Webinar June 23 CFP 2021 Survey open until August 31 GreenScreen Certified for Firefighting Foam Webinar 3:00 PM EDT, June 23 Join us for our upcoming webinar on… …

Newsletter: June 19, 2021

In the year since our letter in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement

Dear Reader, In the year since releasing our letter in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the United States and the world have experienced more racially… …

Newsletter: June 8, 2021

5 activities of BizNGO in 2021

I just want to share a friendly update on BizNGO’s 2021 work: Chemical management − developing footprint metrics for packaging, manufacturing, & organizations Hazard assessment − including chemical classes,… …

Newsletter: June 2, 2021

PFAS-free Firefighting Foam - Webinar June 23: What GreenScreen Certified means for firefighters

Join us on June 23rd at 3:00PM EDT (7:00PM GMT) for presentations by and a discussion with Arlene Nuñez, Holly Davies, and Shari Franjevic on the value of PFAS-free firefighting foam and GreenScreen Certified. Arlene Nuñez is an… …

Newsletter: May 27, 2021

New GreenScreen Registry accesses hundreds of chemical hazard assessments

Today the GreenScreen Assessment Registry joins the GreenScreen® family of tools that provide solutions on the journey to safer chemicals, materials, and products.  GreenScreen List Translator™ provides a quick pathway… …

Voluntary ‘PFAS-Free’ Certification Program Draws Industry Opposition by Diana DiGangi

In a recent interview with Inside TSCA, Shari Franjevic, program manager on the chemical-safety certification nonprofit GreenScreen For Safer Chemicals, said the group’s work reflects efforts to adopt the precautionary principle -- the… …

Newsletter: May 6, 2021

GreenScreen Certified® -- identifying PFAS-free and preferred products for the health of people and the planet

  The per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) chemical class is under intense global scrutiny. From the European Union’s intention to phase out PFAS to individual state PFAS restrictions in the U.S. and the growing commitment by… …

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 Certified® is the world’s first independent certification of firefighting products that do not use PFAS or thousands of other hazardous chemicals.

Certified foams are listed, approved and available now.

Clean Production Action is a non-profit dedicated to producing solutions for a safer chemicals economy. In 2020 we launched GreenScreen Certified® Firefighting Foam -  the world’s first independent certification of firefighting… …

Newsletter: April 1, 2021

Sign up for chemical footprint survey & see retailer progress in chemical footprinting

The Chemical Footprint Project 2021 Survey will be launched on April 15th, and we thought it a good idea to remind companies how the four interlinked pillars in the CFP Survey can help companies reduce their chemical footprint. And why this… …

CFP 2020 Report Webinar

On February 11th, Clean Production Action released the 5th Annual Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey report and hosted a webinar featuring results from the Survey.  The webinar featured:  Cheri Peele, CFP Program Manager at Clean… …

CFP 2020 Report: Front-runners in Chemical Footprinting

5th Annual Chemical Footprint Project Report features best practices in proactive chemicals management by Beautycounter, Herman Miller, HP Inc., Humanscale, Naturepedic, RB (Reckitt Benckiser), & Seventh Generation Somerville, MA –… …

Learn chemical hazard assessment with GreenScreen

When I explain that I work with organizations and networks to promote the use of safer chemicals in products and supply chains I am often asked, “which companies should I support?” or “which products are safe?”  My fall… …

Newsletter: December 30, 2020

2020 in the rearview mirror

In the midst of a global pandemic, the team at Clean Production Action continued to bend the course of the toxic chemicals economy to safer solutions.  We transitioned to a completely virtual organization, ceased all travel, yet continued to… …