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Newsletter: January 7, 2025

When Derreck Kayongo came to the United States as a Ugandan refugee, he wanted to make a difference in his new home - but wasn’t quite sure how. His inspiration came one night while staying at a hotel, when he wondered what happened with all of… …

Clean Production Action (CPA) welcomes Ramboll as our newest Licensed GreenScreen® Profiler! Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company that is headquartered in Denmark and operates in 35 countries. “CPA is… …

February is Black History Month, as well as National Cancer Prevention Month.

Consistent with Clean Production Action’s mission of designing and delivering strategic solutions for replacing toxic chemicals with safer alternatives, we recognize the historic disenfranchisement of Black communities and the disproportionate… …

After 21 years at Clean Production Action, Mark is stepping down from his role as Executive Director.  Join us for drinks and hor d'oeuvres and help us celebrate Mark's next chapter! Please register below.  And consider joining us… …

We are excited to welcome Dr. Chris Helt as the new Director of GreenScreen. He brings a wealth of expertise and experience in developing chemical safety and sustainability standards and assessment methodologies, managing stakeholder engagement,… …

How GreenScreen Certified® Shifts Markets Toward Materials with Preferable Chemistry

Are you concerned that there might be harmful chemicals such as PFAS, BPA or styrene in your food packaging, containers or cookware and have been wondering how to identify products with environmentally preferable chemistry? Or are you a manufacturer… …

GreenScreen Certified® for Reusable Food Packaging, Service Ware, & Cookware

OAKLAND, CA - Today, nonprofit organizations Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Clean Production Action (CPA) unveiled a new certification program that will eliminate toxic chemicals and waste created by single-use foodware materials. The… …

Three years ago, in January 2020, Clean Production Action with Toxic-Free Future launched the GreenScreen Certified® Standard for Firefighting Foam as the world's first ecolabel for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-free*… …

"Clean Production Action, a nonprofit organization that aims to design and deliver strategic solutions for green chemicals, sustainable materials, and environmentally preferable products, recently unveiled the first GreenScreen Certified Standard… …

Hear from Kaiser Permanente, NewGenSurgical, and Clean Production Action about the first-ever GreenScreen Certified® Standard for the health care sector, a new tool to enable hospital purchasers to screen out common equipment and supplies… …

Clean Production Action is excited to announce that GreenScreen Certified® is now one of the certification standards used by Wayfair to spotlight sustainable products offered on its platform. Through Wayfair’s Shop Sustainably offering,… …