What is Clean Heat?
From heat pumps to electric hot water heaters, clean heat warms our homes and businesses with electricity, not gas. This is better for our health and our planet, and reduces our exposure to volatile gas prices.
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
School air monitoring: A win for public health
Back to School on an Electric bus
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
VR risks for kids and teens
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
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EPA makes $2.89 million in awards for 8 electric school buses across 4 school districts in Colorado in first round of the Clean School Bus Program
The EPA announced awards for the first round of funding of the Clean School Bus Program, which offers grants to school districts for the purchase of new electric school buses, of which $2.89 million will go to 4 school districts in Colorado to purchase 8 new electric school buses.
As Clean Water Act turns 50, data shows 1.3 million pounds of toxic chemicals still being dumped into Colorado’s waterways
As the Clean Water Act turns 50 tomorrow, a report from CoPIRG Foundation shows industrial facilities dumped more than 1.3 million pounds of toxic chemicals into Colorado’s waterways in 2020. High volumes of chemicals linked to cancer, reproductive and developmental harm were dumped into watersheds across the state, including the South Platte, Fountain, Clear, Yampa, and Arkansas rivers among others.
A conversation with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser as the Clean Water Act turns 50
We discussed an important Supreme Court case that could threaten clean water protections as well as his lawsuit to hold producers of dangerous PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ accountable
New Superbugs in Stock report: grocery stores failing to stop antibiotic overuse in meat supply chains
Front Range air quality officially downgraded to ‘severe’ by EPA
After years of failing to sufficiently bring down harmful levels of ozone pollution, the EPA officially downgraded Colorado’s Front Range to "severe" violators of federal air quality standards.
Team
Murray
Teresa
Murray
Consumer Watchdog, PIRG
Simon
Alexandra
Simon
Public Health Advocate, CoPIRG Foundation