Jan 2, 2015 | Chemicals and Just Transition
California’s Pioneering Ban on Two PBDEs A recent report from the San Francisco Estuary Institute shows a drop in levels of PBDEs, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, utilized as flame retardants since the mid 1970s, in the shorebirds, mussels and fish in San Francisco...
Sep 22, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition
The Linkage Between Chemicals and Climate On the eve of key climate change talks and the day after the world’s biggest environmental protest, it seems apropos to highlight the linkage between chemicals and climate. The Guardian recently published an interesting...
Sep 16, 2014 | Green Chemistry and Safer Solutions, Key Contribution
Dr. Ann Blake is worked with the University of Washington’s School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences on a course for the organization’s new sustainability certificate program. Dr. Blake developed and taught a course in...
Sep 4, 2014 | Green Chemistry and Safer Solutions, Publications
The Game Between Industry and Consumers is Rigged Susan Freinkel, author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, featured Clean Production Actions Plastics Scorecard in an article in On Earth magazine. Read on for an excerpt of Ms. Freinkel’s article: Let’s Be Perfectly Clear...
Jul 1, 2014 | Chemicals and Just Transition, Key Contribution
Ann Blake, PhD of Environmental & Public Health Consulting and Mark Rossi, PhD, co-director of Clean Production Action have co-authored the Plastics Scorecard V1.0: Evaluating the Chemical Footprint of Plastics: The Plastics Scorecard v.1.0 offers the first...
