BizNGO Newsletters

2024 End of Year News Dear Friends of CPA, I am pleased to share with you, for my last time, Clean Production Action’s end of year newsletter.  I have had a great 21 year run with you on our journey to eliminate toxic chemicals and replace… …

Changing Leadership at Clean Production Action

It is bittersweet to announce that Dr. Mark S. Rossi will be stepping down from his role as Executive Director at Clean Production Action (CPA) in Q1 2025.  We are thankful to Mark for leading CPA on this rewarding journey with all of you to… …

CPA and CEH join forces to host BizNGO 2022

Clean Production Action (CPA) welcomes the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) as a co-host of BizNGO’s 17th Annual Meeting on December 6-7, 2022. BizNGO is a trusted forum for open and honest discussions across businesses, advocacy… …

Join BizNGO in 2022. Here’s what we are up to … Chemicals Management Work Group: adding chemical classes to chemical footprints and specifying benchmarks for corporate chemicals management performance Hazard Assessment Work Group:… …

Blazing pathways to a safer & healthier future

Dear reader, Check out our 2021 impacts – Safer Products, Transparency, Market Demand, DEI/EJ, and Organizational Resilience! SAFER PRODUCTS – Incentivized companies to eliminate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as the… …

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… …

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… …

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… …

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… …

Meeting the demand for renewable energy with safer materials

     Meeting the challenge of global climate change requires significant new investments in renewable energy. Yet the renewable energy economy depends on toxic chemicals. Lead in solar panels. Cadmium telluride in solar cells.… …

Kayla Williams is CPA’s New DEI Lead

We are excited to announce that Kayla Williams will fill Clean Production Action’s new position of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lead. Kayla joined CPA a year ago as Communications and Program Coordinator and has grown into and beyond the… …

Reduce your chemical footprint, participate in annual CFP survey

Recognizing the challenges the coronavirus poses to all of us around the world, Clean Production Action is extending the time period for filling in the Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) 2020 Survey by three months, to July 31,… …

GreenScreen program events and updates

The GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals program has many new and exciting updates and events to report on. See what’s new with GreenScreen: GreenScreen Certified Standard for Firefighting Foam GreenScreen Certified Standard for… …

Webinars on PFAS-free firefighting foam, chemical footprint survey, and more

Join us for these upcoming webinars: Learn how to gain quick access to hundreds of GreenScreen Assessments with ToxServices new Screened Chemistry Library (February 13th) Identify PFAS-free firefighting foam products… …

Upcoming Chemical Footprint & GreenScreen Webinars

We are starting the new decade full speed ahead with a deep dive into the Chemical Footprint Project and GreenScreen. Join us for any of the following webinars:  The 2019 Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey Results, January… …

What does 461 million pounds equal?

That’s the amount of chemicals of high concern (CoHCs) eliminated by companies participating in the 2019 Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey. To give that mind-boggling amount some perspective, it’s the equivalent of 628 Boeing 747… …

Chemical Footprint Project rising in retail, ECHA hosting GreenScreen webinar (Oct 28)

SDGs & Chemical Footprint in retail.  Looking for tools to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #12 – Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns? SDG Indicator 12.4 specifies the need to “achieve the… …

Join BizNGO Annual Meeting December 10-11th

Conference to be held in downtown Boston In anticipation of BizNGO 2019 we wanted to: Provide details on the BizNGO 2019 agenda Highlight the 2019 accomplishments of the BizNGO Work Groups (WGs), including: Endocrine disruptors & chemical classes… …