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Category: Toxics News

Tacoma Mega Warehouse

History/Background In late 2021, Bridge Point Tacoma LLC, a subsidiary of Bridge Industrial, acquired 160 acres of land in South Tacoma with plans to build a 2.5 million square foot Mega-Warehouse, the equivalent of 50 football fields of warehouse. Inspite…

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Earth Ministry/WAIPL Attends Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act Bill Signing in Olympia

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Earth Ministry/WAIPL was honored to join our partners at Toxic-Free Future at the bill signing of HB 1047, the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act. WA now has the strongest law on the books in the country regulating toxic chemicals in personal care products. Starting in 2025, PFAS, lead, phthalates, formaldehyde, and other toxic chemicals will be banned in all cosmetics and personal care products sold in WA.

WA State Bans PFAS in More Types of Food Packaging

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The Washington State Department of Ecology is banning toxic PFAS chemicals in more types of food packaging, thanks in part to input from the Earth Ministry/WAIPL community! The report bans PFAS in flat serviceware, open-top containers, closed containers, bags and sleeves, and bowls used for carry-out/take-out food starting in 2024.

Speak Up for Clean Water: Comment on PFAS Drinking Water Standard

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Clean water is a matter of stewardship and justice. The Earth Ministry/WAIPL community has been raising this moral message within Washington State's process to set limits for toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water. Now, the Department of Health is finalizing their PFAS drinking water standard, and your action is needed for the final rule to set a high bar. Photo credit: Erich Ferdinand

What you need to know about PFAS in food packaging

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Check out these graphics for everything you need to know about PFAS in food packaging in WA and the Department of Ecology's current open comment period on the scope of their 2nd alternatives assessment on PFAS in food packaging. Don't forget to submit your comment at bit.ly/EMpfas2AA by June 30, 2021!

PFAS in Food Packaging

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In 2018 Earth Ministry/WAIPL helped pass a bill to ban food packaging containing toxic PFAS chemicals. The Department of Ecology is now implementing that law by conducting a series of “alternatives assessments” before retailers are required to stop using food packaging with PFAS. Unfortunately, this process is slow going. Right now, Ecology is accepting comments on the scope of their second PFAS alternatives assessment. We are reminding the agency that their decisions and timeline have real implications for the health of human families and ecosystems.

Earth Ministry/WAIPL works within the unceded territories of Northwest Native nations. Our office is on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People past and present. Land acknowledgement is one way to resist erasure of Indigenous histories as well as to honor tribes and the land itself.