NJPIRG's Toxics-Free Future News
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8/7/2007
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New Jersey industries pump hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals known to cause cancer and developmental problems into our air each year, a new report by the New Jersey PIRG Law and Policy Center has found. Many of these toxic releases could be avoided if New Jersey industries started using existing, feasible substitutes for these toxins. | |
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4/13/2006
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American taxpayers will pay more than $1.2 billion to clean up after polluters at Superfund toxic waste sites across the country in 2006, according to a new analysis released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. | |
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4/08/2008
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Trenton- In the shade of a giant rubber duck in Mill Hill Park, Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein joined New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG), and groups representing parents and the learning disabled, to call for action on the Toxic-Free Children’s Products Act (A2332/S1428). | |
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2/25/2008
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Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein and Senator Loretta Weinberg have teamed up to introduce legislation (A2332) that would stop dangerous toxins from being added to toys and child care products. | |
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11/15/2007
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30 of New Jersey's lawmakers took NJPIRG's Toxic-Free Future Pledge, to make toxic clean-up and toxics use reduction a focus in the 2008 legislative session. | |
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08/01/2007
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Pulp and paper mills that use chlorine or chlorine dioxide to whiten paper needlessly endanger more than 5.7 million people, according to a new report released today by NJPIRG. | |
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03/22/2007
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Exposure to dangerous toxic pollution from industrial facilities threatens communities in New Jersey and across the country, according to a new report released today by NJPIRG and the NJ Work Environment Council. | |
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02/07/2008
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Along with dozens of state and national environmental health organizations in the U.S. and Canada, NJPIRG is calling for action to eliminate the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from use in baby bottles and other consumer products, based on the results of a new study that demonstrates BPA leaches from popular plastic baby bottles when heated. | |