California fines Bumble and Bumble, Walmart, and others for VOCs in products

Hair and nail care products are contributing to smog: The California Air Resources Board has fined… …

“Flame retardants are everywhere”

Plastics in turn, are a leading end use for flame retardants. They’re found in penguins and in… …

Plastics Scorecard

Plastics Scorecard and Valuing Plastic, two recent reports demonstrate how companies need to pay… …

Plastics Scorecard Press Release

Plastics Scorecard ranks popular plastics Businesses praise new tool to assess “chemical… …

5 steps to reduce the chemical footprint of plastic products

By switching the type of plastic used in its IV bags, Dignity Health care system kept 700,000 pounds… …

Washington State finds “regrettable flame retardant substitutions”

Why companies need to do hazard assessments of alternatives … Testing for flame retardants in… …

US EPA releases final TCE risk assessment—2nd final assessment in 38 years under TSCA authority

Since 1976, when Congress enacted the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) the EPA released its… …

UNEP says measuring plastics use will reduce companies’ environmental impacts

Environmental impacts of plastic use are a business liability, says a new report from the Plastic… …

Plastics from Trees

Is the chemistry safer? We’re excited about displacing fossil fuels as the feedstocks for… …

US EPA identifies HBCD alternatives

Are the alternatives to HBCD safer? The US EPA’s Design for Environment program released its… …