Protect Your Child from Toxic Chemicals in Furniture & Carpets
Fact sheet on reducing chemical exposure from carpets and furniture in your home.
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How Toxic Chemicals Impact Health
Fact sheet on how toxic chemicals can impact you and your family’s health.
What Chemicals are in your Personal Care Products?
Search EWG’s recommendations of non-toxic personal care products and discover if your favorite items have toxic chemicals.
What Chemicals are in Your Food?
EWG’s Food Score database tells you what chemicals are in the food products and provides a list of health concerns associated with each chemical if there are any.
What’s in Your Your Tap Water?
EWG created a database on tap water quality where you can search your zip code and see the common contaminants in your tap water system.
How Indoor Air Quality Impacts Health Video
Video to see how indoor air quality impacts health and view recommendations on maintaining good air quality at home.
How Healthy is your Community’s Air?
Enter your zip code to see how the air quality in your neighborhood ranks with the rest of the country.
Lead Curriculum for a HS Chemistry Class
This curriculum on Lead is designed for a high school chemistry class. Christobal Carambo developed this program while attending the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia.
Lead Curriculum for a HS Government Class
This curriculum on Lead is designed for a high school government class.
Design for the Environment Disinfectant Label
The Design for the Environment (DfE) label helps consumers and purchasers find safer antimicrobial products, like disinfectants and cleaners.
Lead Curriculum for a HS Statistics Class
This curriculum on Lead is designed for a high school statistics class.
Safer Pest Management
Beyond Pesticides provides information on the least toxic ways to deal with pests.
Water Pollution Curriculum for 3-5th Grade Students
This unit on environmental health was designed for elementary students grades three through five.
Toolkit for Parents of Children Who Test Positive for Lead
Find county specific resources in PA on steps to take if you have a child who tests positive for lead.
Water Pollution Curriculum for 3rd-6th Grade Science and English Language Arts Class
Unit will help middle school students gain a deeper understanding of their connection to the land defined as the urban watershed and the system defined as the urban water use cycle.
EWG’s Guide to Healthy Cleaning
The Environmental Working Group database lists the least toxic cleaning products to use at home.
Physician Toolkit on Care Management for Children who Test Positive for Lead
The Lead Free Promise Project produced a toolkit to be used by Primary Care Providers to guide the care management process of children who test positive for lead in PA.
Air Quality Alerts
Sign up for air quality alerts, so you’ll know when to keep children and vulnerable adults inside.
Certified Lead Renovation Repair and Painting Firms Near You
If your home was built before 1978 you should use a lead certified contractor for all home renovation and repair.
Pollen Count Forecast
This Pollen Tracker will help you and your family know when to stay indoors to decrease symptoms from allergies.
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit (PEHT)
This toolkit is for clinicians to be able to provide simple, evidenced-based steps to families on how to reduce toxic exposures in their daily lives.
Delaware County: Get the Lead Out of your Home
Children First created several resources with information on free programs operating in Delaware County that will help families get the lead out of their homes and apartments.
Hazardous Waste Sites Near You
Use the map linked on the webpage to identify current and past hazardous waste cleanup sites in your community.
Map of Sewers Contaminating Philadelphia Waterways
When it rains, raw sewage from homes flows into Philadelphia waterways. Use this map to find out when and where it’s happening.