Read the full article by Alec Levin and Edward Apraku (NRDC)
“Even as the federal government is in the process of wholesale dismantling environmental and public health protections, states’ actions are protecting their residents and people well beyond their borders—even nationally.
When NRDC works on state policy, our hope is always to bring positive impacts beyond the state(s) we are working in. Here, we analyze the impacts of five examples of state action to protect against exposures to harmful chemicals in consumer products—drawn from NRDC’s work—that shows state policy is indeed having benefits beyond state borders.
The chemicals addressed by the state laws described below are of widespread concern because they are associated with myriad health impacts, from cancer to reproductive and developmental harm to numerous others. In addition, many of them are extremely persistent in the environment—they last for a very, very long time and accumulate in the environment. This is why PFAS chemicals, for example, are called ‘forever chemicals.'”…