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
STATEMENT: FDA says PFAS completely phased out of U.S. food packaging
Back to School on an Electric bus
Updates
280 more school districts are getting clean buses
Slime Licker liquid candy recalled; 70 million products could be dangerous
Consumer safety official sets his sights on gas stove pollution
Featured Resources
State of Electric School Buses
VR risks for kids and teens
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
35th annual Trouble in Toyland report uncovers mislabeled and dangerous toys
Illinois PIRG Education Fund’s Trouble in Toyland report has helped identify dangerous toys for 35 years. But 2020 is unique, and as Americans have worked, learned and played from home to protect themselves from COVID-19, children could be more susceptible to certain toy-related hazards.
Factory farms: A pandemic in the making.
The emergence and spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic is a symptom of how we raise food animals across the world.
CDC estimates at least 35,000 die from drug-resistant infections annually
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its new Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States report, which estimates at least 35,000 Americans die annually from infections that antibiotics can no longer effectively treat.
Flint Pediatrician Gave a Voice to the Voiceless in Flint, Michigan
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is the Flint pediatrician who led the charge in proving that Flint water was tainted by lead and was poisoning the community. Without her drive and dedication to the children of Flint, it is hard to say how long government officials might have left the public in the dark about the mounting crisis. In honor of Women’s History Month we’re recognizing Dr. Hanna-Attisha -- a doctor, mother, and activist -- who has relentlessly fought for the public interest.
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Consumer Watchdog, PIRG