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The next Retailer Report Card will feature a revamped scoring rubric and a new list of high priority chemicals and plastics to further catalyze market transformation away from toxic chemicals and plastics and towards safer solutions.
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Outdoor retailer Dick’s Sporting Goods quietly announced it will ban PFAS "forever chemicals" in its own-brand textile products. This action was part of a major update to its Restricted Substance List (RSL) released in March.
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A new investigation released today by Toxic-Free Future titled PVC Poison Plastic uncovers the corporations responsible for creating the largest vinyl chloride pollution in the United States and the far-reaching toxic impacts of making polyvinyl chloride plastic (PVC). Following the recent Ohio train derailment where vinyl chloride and PVC plastic burned, this new report reveals that vinyl chloride pollution is widespread across the country. 
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A new report from the Ecology Center’s Healthy Stuff Lab shows almost 80% of paper receipts from large retailers in the United States contain bisphenol S (BPS).
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Following a nationwide campaign led by Toxic-Free Future, REI announced it will ban PFAS "forever chemicals" in all textile products and cookware from its suppliers.
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The new year is here. It’s a time to reflect about the world around us and ways we can improve. And there is one New Year’s resolution we would like to suggest to REI: stop leaving a toxic trail of PFAS pollution.
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Since 2019, Sephora has made important progress to reduce toxic chemicals in the beauty and personal care products it sells. It's time for Sephora to build on its successes and expand its policy even further to reduce and eliminate harmful chemicals in its products and packaging, and ensure substitutes are verifiably safer.
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Most REI members or shoppers most likely assume that products with an eco-label like bluesign® would never contain carcinogens, reproductive toxicants, or chemicals (e.g., PFAS) that can wind up contaminating breast milk. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. 
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EPA's label is a useful tool for consumers and companies.
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REI members are demanding that outdoor retailer REI set a clear timeline to eliminate toxic PFAS as part of a year-long national campaign led by Toxic-Free Future’s Mind the Store program, Safer States, and partners.
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