Stop Toxic Pollution

Forty-five years after Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, chemical companies are still endangering our environment with toxic substances. In fact, polluters continue to pump billions of pounds of toxic chemicals into our air, land, and water each year, many of which can cause cancer and other severe health effects. Chemicals sprayed on laptops and mattresses are now found in orcas and peregrine falcons. Mercury contaminates fish across the nation.  And scientists are finding these same toxins in our bodies.

To guide us toward a toxic-free future, Environment America advocates switching our economy to safer alternatives, phasing out toxins that accumulate in wildlife and in our bodies, ensuring our right to know about current toxic hazards, and making polluters pay to clean up the toxic legacy of the past.