“These are the forever toxins that are forever transforming our health and safety.,” said Bobbi Wilding, Executive Director of Clean + Healthy and co-lead of the JustGreen Partnership.

“This will actually give parents the information that they need when they’re shopping,” said Bobbi Wilding, executive director of Clean + Healthy.

“They’re put there to make them stain-resistant or water-resistant, but unfortunately, they cause a whole host of problems to our health and to our environment. And so this ban is going to mean that we don’t have to worry about that, we don’t have to worry that when we wash our clothes in the laundry, we’re washing PFAS down the drain and into our drinking water,” said Bobbi Wilding, Executive Director of Clean + Healthy and Co-Chair of the JustGreen Partnership.

"It's causing huge problems down in Long Island and other places that are really dependent on underground aquifers and so getting rid of 1 4 Dioxane in products that get washed right down the drain is incredible logical approach to protecting people when they are using the products but also making sure we're protecting everyone's drinking water supply," said Bobbi Wilding, Executive Director of Clean and Healthy NY.

“Electronic waste is the fastest growing category of municipal solid waste, and simply put, it’s full of toxics. When people can’t easily hire local repair shops to fix their damaged devices, they are often driven to dump their items and buy a new one,” said Bobbi Widling, the executive director of Clean+Healthy, and co-chair of the JustGreen Partnership. “This results in too-frequent disposal of electronic devices that contain lead, PFAS, and bisphenols, all of which leach into the environment.”

“Electronic waste is the fastest growing category of municipal solid waste, and simply put, it’s full of toxics,” said Bobbi Wilding, executive director of Clean+Healthy and co-chair of the JustGreen Partnership.

“When people can’t easily hire local repair shops to fix their damaged devices, they are often driven to dump their item and buy a new one. This results in too-frequent disposal of electronic devices that contain lead, PFAS, and bisphenols, all of which leach into the environment.”

“New York State has a diverse population of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color who use more personal care cosmetics than their white counterparts, especially those that are marketed toward achieving archaic Euro-centric beauty standards,” said Bobbi Wilding, Executive Director of Clean+Healthy, the state’s leading environmental health organization. “…Thank you to Governor Hochul for signing this bill and to Senator Brouk and Assemblymember Reyes for bringing it forward to protect New Yorkers from this harmful neurotoxin in their everyday products.”

The seven-term congressman…has called out the fossil fuel industry on its long campaign of disinformation on global warming, and pushed for legislation to phase out fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

"It's urgent that the Department of Health and Governor Hochul act swiftly to set low cumulative thresholds for PFAS chemicals - as close to zero as possible. It's also critical to recognize that the entire class of PFAS chemicals -over 9,000 individual structures- have been indicted for their harm on human health. We can't wait to address these one, two, or even ten at a time. An overall, low threshold must be set," said Bobbi Wilding, Executive Director of Clean+Healthy.

'There's no law that says that a company has to tell you every single thing that's in a mattress,' Bobbi Wilding, executive director of Clean and Healthy New York, told the Times. 

'So whatever they tell you is what they're choosing to tell you, and that leaves people incredibly vulnerable because you have to just rely on what they say.' 

Advocates like Clean & Healthy New York want limits on toxics including phthalates included in an extended producer responsibility bill, S 1185C. Bobbi Wilding, the group’s executive director, said it’s also pushing for A 143 / S 3331 which would restrict toxics like phthalates in cosmetics.

Wilding said groups like hers are looking to move past phthalate restrictions to the source by limiting the use of vinyl—which phthalates are added to—in consumer packaging.

“We want to focus on taking as big of bite as we can,” Wilding said.

“Bobbi Wilding has a hawk’s eye for spotting toxic chemicals in consumer products like mattresses, cleaning agents, outdoor apparel and gear, and even children’s furniture and toys. She also has state officials’ ears: Gov. Kathy Hochul in early January signed bills banning products with flame retardant chemicals in furniture, laptops and TVs, and state Attorney General Letitia James demanded baby food companies stop advertising that their goods were free of heavy metals despite tests revealing lead, cadmium and arsenic.”

“No one likes to be misled. Parents need to know that information about products - especially food - that companies provide is accurate, so they can make the best choices for their family,” said Bobbi Wilding, executive director, Clean and Healthy New York and director, national Getting Ready for Baby campaign.” False advertising and greenwashing - claiming things are safer or healthier than they are - hurts everyone…”