Here are some ways you can act to promote health and safe environments for children today.

Centering children in environmental protection means paying special attention to pollutants that pose harm like lead, a neurotoxicant. It also means enacting policies that protect kids within their environments.

This volunteer network of independent public health experts is still waiting for EPA Administrator Zeldin to fulfill the administration’s promise to reinstate this committee so it can protect the nation’s kids.

For example, the EPA is home to a federal advisory committee that advises the agency on how to best protect kids from environmental health threats. But the committee hasn’t met in over a year.

By eliminating environmental protections that help keep kids safe, the Trump administration hasn't lived up to its MAHA promise to protect children.

Kids interact with the world differently than adults and protecting their environmental health requires specific intention and different strategies.

Today is International Children’s Environmental Health Day, which is a day of awareness and action bringing people together to create a healthier, safer, and more equitable world for all children.

CHPAC must be allowed to convene with its full membership to provide independent, science-based advice to the EPA. UCS will continue to defend the role of independent scientific advice in EPA decision-making.

A movement built around putting kids first instead gave center stage to AI and Big Tech executives, while sidelining real solutions to the environmental and public health threats facing children and families.

As yesterday's MAHA meeting made clear, the Trump administration is failing to protect children's health with the best available science.

For nearly three decades under administrations of both parties, volunteer members of CHPAC have provided EPA with evidence-based science and policy recommendations on children’s environmental health.

Since March, Trump's EPA has left the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) partially unseated and inactive—weakening the agency's ability to keep kids safe from exposure to pollution, toxic chemicals, and microplastics.

1/ CALLING ALL AIR POLLUTION AND EJ EXPERTS! Today is the deadline to sign up to speak at two upcoming public meetings of the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) on 09/09 and 09/17.