EWG Announces New Jonas Initiative for Children’s Environmental Health

Today, children may be exposed to a wide range of environmental hazards in schools and at home: lead in drinking water and old paint, asbestos, PCBs, radon, mold, cleaner chemicals, various indoor and outdoor air pollution, and pesticides.

This new partnership between EWG and the Jonas Family Fund will “bolster the current body of children’s health research and strike out on new, groundbreaking approaches that will help protect all children from polluted environments,” says the president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), Ken Cook.

Soda Tax and Removal Linked to Decreased Consumption, Who Knew!?

Last month, the World Health Organization urged countries around the world to impose a tax on sugary drinks, presenting research that showed just a 20 percent increase in soda prices would result in a proportionate reduction in their consumption. Incredible!

The potential impact public officials have in our consumption of sugary drinks really could save our country from chronic illnesses including diabetes and heart disease. Meanwhile, Big Food companies and their trade groups are still slicing the pie unfairly and masking the harmful affects of these addicting refreshments.

Sierra Club’s, “Climate Parents” Program Works Hard For Clean, Renewable Energy

“A world powered by 100% clean energy is the one that our kids deserve to grow up in. Climate Parents is helping mobilize families to realize that vision,” says Michael Brune, the Executive Director at The Sierra Club. Climate Parents began over four years ago and was founded on the premise that if you care about your kids then you should care about their future too. The program’s aim is to ‘harness the moral and political force of millions of families’ to influence public policy makers and energy providers.