Beauty Inside Out

New York State Environmental Health & Justice Advocates and Bill Sponsors Call on Governor Hochul to Get Deadly Toxics Out of Their Communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 2022 Contact: Bobbi Wilding, Clean+Healthy, 518-708-3875, bobbi@cleanhealthyny.org ALBANY, NY — With only a few weeks left for Governor Hochul to sign vital legislation, advocates and bill sponsors gathered, calling on her to sign five

WE ACT is Disappointed with the Fiscal Year 2022-23 New York State Budget

WE ACT is Disappointed with the Fiscal Year 2022-23 New York State Budget New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and the Legislature Fail to Adequately Fund Environmental and Climate Justice Initiatives FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2022 Contact: Chris

WE ACT Responds to the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus’ 2022-23 “People’s Budget”

NEW YORK — New York State’s Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus released its Fiscal Year 2023 “People’s Budget” on January 17, 2022. The document details what these legislators view as the state’s budgetary needs for its

Taylor Morton on Toxics in Beauty Products in Retailer Report Card in CNN – March 30, 2021

WE ACT for Environmental Justice’s Director of Environmental Health & Education Taylor Morton was quoted in the March 30, 2021 CNN story on the Mind the Store campaign’s Retailer Report Card, explaining the disproportionate threat that toxic chemicals in beauty

Beauty Inside Out Partnership with Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Mind the Store – June 22, 2020

A June 22, 2020 Safer Chemicals Healthy Families blog post announcing the partnership between its Mind the Store campaign and WE ACT’s Beauty Inside Out campaign showcased an excerpt from a WE ACT blog post written by former intern Leslie

Embracing Beauty Inside Out: My Journey to Clean Beauty

As I sat in the beauty salon chair, flinching from the sensation of the heat over my edges, I repeated to myself, “beauty is pain and pain is beauty.” That was the affirmation of an 11-year old girl who believed

Lubna Ahmed Quoted in St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Toxins in Personal Care Products – March 5, 2020

WE ACT’s Director of Environmental Health Lubna Ahmed was quoted in a March 5, 2020 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on natural hairstyles, citing our work to educate communities of color about toxins found in hair care and other personal care

WE ACT Celebrates New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Signing the Period Products Labeling Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 11, 2019 Contact: Chris Dobens, 212-961-1000 ext. 320, chris@weact.org ALBANY, NY — New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed the Period Products Labeling Act into law today, legislation that requires manufacturers selling period products

WE ACT Supports the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2019

Today Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a landmark bill—the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2019. It is the only federal cosmetic safety legislation that would immediately ban more than a dozen of the worst toxic chemicals from