Click HERE to access report.
"Healthy States: Protecting Families from Toxic Chemicals
While Congress Lags Behind"

Click HERE to learn more about the
TOXIC CHEMICAL SAFETY ACT (HR 5820).

Op-Ed Elizabeth Crowe. KEF Executive Director "Kentucky Voices: Congress must act to regulate BPA" Lexington Herald-Leader  Nov. 17, 2010

Op-Ed by Berea Mom, Ashley Cochrane "Support more scrutiny of toxic chemicals" Lexington Herald-Leader  Nov. 8, 2010

KEF Signs Letter Calling for Action on Dioxin Contamination

This week, more than 50 organizations signed onto a letter sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calling on them to act on dioxin.  The OMB is reviewing EPA's proposed cleanup guidelines for dioxin, which will impact the cleanup of dioxin contaminated sites around the country such as the Dow site in Michigan. The organizations signed onto the letter are listed below.

Alaska Community Action on Toxics Biofuel Watch Breast Cancer Fund California Communities Against Toxics Catawba RIVERKEEPER Center for Environmental Health The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) Citizens' Environmental Coalition Citizens for Sanity.Com, Inc. Clean New York Clean Water Action Community Coalition for Environmental Justice Concerned Citizens of Russell Coulee Partners for Sustainability CounterCorp Earth Circle Conservation & Recycling Emerald Coastkeeper, Inc. Empire State Consumer Project Environmental Alliance of North Florida Environmental Health Fund Florida League of Conservation Voters Floridians Against Incinerators In Disguise Friends of the Fenholloway River Galveston BAYKEEPER Global Exchange Greenpeace Green Delaware Greenwich Citizens Committee, Inc. Hackensack Riverkeeper

Healthy Building Network Healthy Schools Network HOPE (Help Our Polluted Environment) Hopewell Junction Citizens for Clean Water Housatonic River Initiative Indiana Toxics Action Ironbound Community Corp Kentucky Environmental Foundation LEAD Agency, Inc. Lone Tree Council Louisiana Environmental Action Network Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition Mobile Baykeeper Montana Environmental Information Center Mossville Environmental Action Now Inc. NY/NJ Baykeeper NYCOSH New York Public Interest Research Group PC PRIDE (Person County People Rising in Defense    of Ecology) Physicians for Social Responsibility Rosedale Recycles San Francisco Baykeeper Sierra Club St. Johns Riverkeeper Turtle Island Restoration Network Western North Carolina Allliance WNYCOSH

The Breast Cancer Fund has releasesd a new report, which summarizes and evaluates the scientific evidence linking exposures to chemicals and radiation in our everyday environments to increased breast cancer risk. It also links the science to actions we can take to reduce the risk.

State of the Evidence 2010 The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment Click on image at right to access report For information on how you can reduce your risk, go to Breast Cancer Fund website

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KEF & REACT
2010 Forecastle Music, Arts and Activism Festival
Waterfront Park July 9 in Louisville

KEF & REACT, members of the national coalition Safer Chemicals/Healthy Families, presented information on the desperate need to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act. They encouraged folks to sign postcards addressed to federal legislators urging them to help pass effective reform legislation.
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Additionally KEF gave a "Clean & Healthy Homes" demonstration.

At left, KEF toxics & health intern Martina Jackson begins her demonstration of how to make a non-toxic window cleaner. Below, an audience participant admires the effectiveness of the non-toxic window spray she just used.

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And REACT explained how air can be monitored

Charles Pope and Eboni Cochran, of REACT (Rubbertown Emergency Action), both live in a Louisville community adjacent to a cluster of chemical plants called Rubbertown.  At right, Charles, with Eboni's assistance, demonstrates how REACT uses a simple five-gallon bucket device to collect air samples, which are then sent to a lab to be analyzed for types and amounts of chemicals present.

The Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition has released their animated video, "Toxic Chemical Lobby: Exclusive Leaked Footage."
Click here to access the video and learn how to take action.

The characters you meet in the video are cartoons, but the plot is ripped straight from the headlines. We need Congress to act now, to make sure the products we reach for, sleep on, and eat from every day aren’t loaded with toxic chemicals. You can help Congress stay strong in the face of chemical industry pushback but only if you speak out.