Coming Clean

08/31/2026

GOOD NEWS! Dollar Tree updated its Chemical Management Policy, restricting more chemicals and requiring its suppliers to be more transparent and accountable. Its new restrictions on harmful ingredients in cosmetics build on protective state laws in Washington, California and other states.

This is also responsive to community-led product screening published by Campaign for Healthier Solutions - CHS with support from Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Service Harambee House Lideres Campesinas Just Transition Alliance Learning Disabilities Association of America and more.

Dollar store shoppers should still be careful about what they buy, and especially avoid soft plastics, but this is an exciting step from a national retailer. Read more in Consumer Affairs https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/dollar-tree-tightens-rules-on-chemicals-in-its-products-081726.html

08/11/2026

With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard.
We MUST stop it! act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg

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With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it!
https://act.seiu.org/a/fedheatregs?ms=fb

Con temperaturas de 100° convirtiéndose en la nueva normalidad, los republicanos están tratando de detener todas las normas federales de protección contra el calor, ahora y en el futuro. La HR 6213 prohíbe que OSHA cree o haga cumplir CUALQUIER norma nacional de protección contra el calor. ¡TENEMOS que detenerla!

08/04/2026

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07/07/2026

The latest SCOTUS case proved that the U.S. pesticide approval system has never worked for anyone except pesticide companies... but the movement to force EPA to finally start doing its job and protect us all from pesticides is the strongest it’s ever been.

The court’s decision on glyphosate will empower the movement to stop pesticide companies from causing harm.

06/25/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court today, in a 7-2 decision, issued a ruling that prohibits, under current federal law, the right of those harmed by pesticides to sue manufacturers for their failure to warn consumers of potential hazards on their product labels. The decision effectively shields manufacturers from failure to warn lawsuits.

“The Court’s decision today is a tragic setback for public and environmental health, allowing companies that produce toxic pesticides to evade the most basic of responsibilities, warning consumers that their products may cause cancer and other deadly diseases,” said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides.

“Today’s Supreme Court decision sells out farmers, gardeners, and rural communities to multibillion-dollar pesticide corporations,” said Sarah Starman, Senior Food & Agriculture Campaigner Friends of the Earth U.S. “It is devastating that the Court has restricted the ability of everyday Americans to hold pesticide companies accountable for the harms of their toxic products. No industry should be above the law, especially not an industry that makes products linked to cancer, infertility, and other serious health harms. But the story doesn’t end here. We’ll keep fighting in the courts, the EPA, and halls of Congress for a future that is free of toxic pesticides — a future where the health of our farmers, farmworkers, families, and environment comes first.”

Read more from Beyond Pesticideshttps://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/Immediate%20Release%20Supreme%20Court%20Gives%20Pesticide%20Makers%20Immunity%20from%20Litigation%20for%20Omitting%20Cancer%20Warning%20on%20Products%20III.pdf

06/23/2026

Chemical accidents killed 48 people in 2025—almost double 2024’s toll—and seriously injured 142, according to an new analysis by the Wall St. Journal, which looked at data submitted to the Chemical Safety Board.

The Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, which tracks news reports of chemical incidents, counts about twice as many as the CSB between 2021 and 2025, since the CSB doesn’t require reporting of accidents that resulted in just shelter-in-place or evacuation orders, for instance.

Aging infrastructure is making more plants susceptible to accidents. Many are repeat offenders.

05/27/2026

Imagine spending Memorial Day weekend evacuated from your home due to the threat of chemical explosion. This happened to tens of thousands of families this last weekend. And as of today, over 16,000 people in Orange County still can't return home & are staying in tents and cars.

You might live closer to a hazardous chemical facility than you think. And the Trump Administration has recently proposed gutting regulations for hazardous facilities.

Thousands of people who live near a damaged hazardous chemical tank in Southern California still can't return home, even as officials say the risk of a catastrophic explosion had largely passed.

05/07/2026

One in three Americans live near hazardous chemicals. Now it’s harder to tell if you’re one of them.

Until last year, one of the best ways to find out if you live near one of the roughly 12,000 facilities that store hazardous, cancer-causing chemicals used in manufacturing products like pesticides or medical devices was to go to an EPA webpage for the Risk Management Program (RMP). There you could type in your zip code in a search tool, and see if any of these chemical factories are nearby. (Latino, Black and low-income people are more likely to bear the brunt of chemical pollution; they disproportionately live closer to chemical plants than other groups.)

But last April, the Trump administration took down this tool. Now the only way to get this information is to drive to one of several dozen EPA reading rooms across the country to examine paper records.

“Another layer of protection for environmental justice communities was taken down when they took away the RMP tool,” said Nalleli Hidalgo, community outreach and education liaison for Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Service, a Houston environmental justice advocacy group.

Much of Tejas’s organizing is based around the Houston Ship Channel, a roughly 50-mile waterway that’s home to more than 600 petrochemical facilities. In 2021, about 100,000lbs of toxic acid was released during a chemical leak along the ship channel that left two people dead and injured 30.

Having the RMP tool allowed residents who live near the ship channel to use their phones to look up facilities near their schools and homes.

“You have a right to know what’s in your back yard,” said Maya Nye, federal policy director for Coming Clean, a non-profit environmental health collaborative. She said the removal of the tool is particularly concerning because “we haven’t figured out how to prevent chemical disasters and people are still experiencing them”.

The deletion of the RMP tool comes as the Trump administration proposes further dismantling accident-prevention regulations at chemical plants, even though the US continues to average one chemical accident every two days, a rate that will only accelerate amid the climate crisis.

This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come

05/05/2026

This will result in weaker protections against toxic chemicals, and more industry science.

Internal memo shows Trump appointee targeting EPA program that assesses toxic chemicals.

05/01/2026

Pesticides are making us sick - not just where they applied, but where they are manufactured and processed.

SipCam Agro in Wayne County, Mississippi, processes the toxic herbicide paraquat, which has been linked to Parkinson's disease and other life threatening health conditions. In 2024, the plant emitted 47,000 pounds of paraquat: enough paraquat to treat a tract of land larger than the city of Atlanta.

Wayne County also sees high rates of Parkinson’s disease deaths, in the top 7% of all U.S. counties that reported Parkinson’s deaths between 2018 and 2024.

Little research has been done on paraquat production’s effects on surrounding communities.But research has been done on communities close to paraquat use and it suggests that far lower levels of exposure have negative effects.

A recent study found that people who live within 1,600 feet of a paraquat application site have 91% higher odds of developing Parkinson’s.

Wayne County, Mississippi faces high Parkinson’s death rates as a nearby plant emits thousands of pounds of paraquat, a toxic herbicide linked to neurological disease and banned in dozens of countries.