A Safe and Healthy Rhode Island

Clean Water is working to reduce and eliminate toxic chemical exposures in our everyday lives- in buildings, schools, and workplaces, air, water and food, and in consumer products.

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Toxic Chemicals

Tell legislators to keep toxic chemicals like PFAS out of our food packaging!

PFAS or per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances can be toxic to humans and yet they are found in our food packaging (pizza boxes, bakery paper, microwa

Take Action! Tell legislators to keep toxic chemicals like PFAS out of our food packaging.
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Keep Toxic PFAS Out of Food Packaging

Learn more about PFAS, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a class of chemicals that are commonly used and highly dangerous. 

Climate March
Civic Engagement and Elections, Water, Toxic Chemicals

New England Currents | Fall 2018

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Toxic Chemicals

Protect Families and Firefighters from Flame Retardants

Flame retardant chemicals sound like a good thing.

From We All Live Downstream

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Leading the Way: Bright City Providence Moves Towards Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
Rhode Island
October 22, 2019

How can your City green its procurement? Safer States developed a Sustainable Procurement Roadmap with sample policies and strategies for implementation. Both the Center for Environmental Health and the Responsible Purchasing Network are available for one-on-one technical support.

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Retailer Report Card
Retailer Report Card Released with Failing Grades
California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, National, Rhode Island
November 14, 2017

A new Retailer Report Card from Mind the Store, a project of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition, grades major retailers on actions they have taken to remove toxic products from their shelves.

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Engaging the Marketplace & Winning
Rhode Island
April 26, 2017

Our members are familiar with many of the aspects of Clean Water Action advocacy: promoting legislation, endorsing candidates, field and phone canvassing, educational outreach.

Several of our state offices also do direct engagement with the business community to promote best practices on issues like chemical policy and waste management. Our New England offices (Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts) have been working for over a year with management at CVS Health on developing a safer chemical policy. 

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