School air monitoring: A win for public health
Air quality monitors in classrooms can make schools safer and demonstrate effectiveness of HVAC investments.
Kids’ health
Few things are more important than keeping kids safe and healthy. Working together, we can protect them from hidden dangers, toxic threats and unsafe products and practices.
We all work hard to make sure the young ones in our lives and communities can grow up happy and healthy. In many ways the world is safer than it has ever been for kids — but there are still way too many avoidable risks and hidden dangers that kids face every day. Together, we can better alert parents and communities about threats to kids’ health; we can ensure everyone has access to resources that will help them keep their families safe; and we can work together around commonsense solutions.
The Latest on Kids’ health
Back to School on an Electric bus
New CO data shows using gas stoves produces similar levels of benzene in homes as second-hand smoke
Updates
Slime Licker liquid candy recalled; 70 million products could be dangerous
Cooking with gas is like having a smoker in your kitchen
Colorado launches $65M electric school bus grant program
Featured Resources
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2023 State of Electric School Buses in Colorado
The Threat of “Forever Chemicals”
Green schools guide
Did You Know?
Medical experts estimate that more than 24 million American kids are at risk of losing IQ points due to lead exposure.
What We're Doing
With research indicating that most states are failing to protect children from lead in schools’ drinking water, we need policies that are strong enough to “get the lead out” at schools and preschools.
The Latest
Type
Colorado launches $65M electric school bus grant program
Colorado gets a ‘C+’ for efforts to get the lead out of water
CoPIRG calls for stronger action to prevent lead contamination of schools’ water.
Colorado gets a ‘C+’ for efforts to get the lead out of water
CoPIRG Foundation highlights Colorado’s grade jumps in a report that ranks states on policies addressing lead in drinking water. The improved grade comes following a new state law that requires testing and remediation for some schools but Colorado still falls short in protecting kids from all lead in water. CoPIRG is calling on school districts to take additional action to fully protect kids from lead exposure, including adopting filter first policies and accessing available state and federal funding, something Vice President Harris emphasized in a recent visit to Colorado.
Gas stoves and your health: What you need to know to keep your family safe, healthy
The kitchen appliance has been all over the news since CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr. discussed the cons of these appliances
Consumer safety official sets his sights on gas stove pollution
At a webinar hosted by PIRG, CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka talked about the agencies work to address the risks of gas stove pollution.
Team
Murray
Teresa
Murray
Consumer Watchdog, PIRG
Simon
Alexandra
Simon
Public Health Advocate, CoPIRG Foundation