New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic “forever chemicals”

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1. However, some critics warn the new state law may only end up increasing consumer costs in other areas. Asked about those concerns, Cutter says that the law will provide plenty of time in a phase out for industries to create safer products. 

   “It’s really hard coming up against a powerful lobby, and they spent a lot of money ensuring that these chemicals can continue being put into our products and make profits for these companies,” Cutter said. “We took comment from a lot of people and some companies flew people in from all over the world to lobby because, you know, (they claim) we’re stifling innovation, we’re stifling industry, but I think we’re smarter and better than that. I think you can have both things. I think you can have a successful company, and you can also look out for the communities that you serve. I think there are alternatives, and I have faith that we’re going to be able to continue developing those.”

   Either way, Chittoor feels laws like these are critical to protect our future because if kept unchecked, these practically indestructible chemicals will only continue to build up in our environment and our bodies.

2. Fuck yeah, let’s fuckin gooooo nj