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
Secret shopper survey finds retailers failing to inform consumers
280 more school districts are getting clean buses
Slime Licker liquid candy recalled; 70 million products could be dangerous
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
Type
NEW ANALYSIS: 434 cleaner electric school buses committed to Massachusetts
Massachusetts investing in electric school buses.
New report: 300-plus food recalls in 2023, highest since 2020
10 outbreaks - 4 included Massachusetts- sickened, hospitalized, killed people nationwide
NEW REPORT: Top retailers fail to warn shoppers about health risks of gas stove pollution
Second annual survey finds lack of accurate information at large appliance retail stores about gas stove safety,
Consumer Protection Week 2024: Advice for everyone trying to navigate today’s complex marketplaces
MASSPIRG offers expert tips on protecting your privacy, avoiding scams, identifying reliable cell phones and more.
Parents and teachers call on EPA to ‘get the lead out’ at school
Groups representing millions of parents and teachers joined environmental and public health advocates to urge the EPA to get the lead out of drinking water at schools and child care centers.
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Murray
Teresa
Murray
Consumer Watchdog, PIRG