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Air and water pollution, environmental toxins, climate change and other environmental hazards impact children far more than adults. Marginalized children — children of color and those in low-income communities — bear the brunt of these dangers. First Focus on Children works to ensure that every child lives free from environmental risks.

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May 29, 2025 Child Nutrition

How the House-Passed Budget Reconciliation Bill Would Negatively Impact Children

The House has passed a budget reconciliation bill that supporters are referring to as a “one big, beautiful bill.”...

Oct 29, 2024 Environmental Health

How Project 2025 would gut environmental protections and poison the nation’s children

Project 2025 outlines plans to eliminate EPA's environmental justice programs, remove protections for children, and ignore racial disparities in...

Oct 22, 2024 Environmental Health

EPA Finalizes Rule to Eliminate Lead Pipes

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a rule requiring that all lead pipes in the U.S. must...

Feb 16, 2024 Environmental Health

Getting the Lead Out: Keeping Kids Safe from Lead Pipes

Images of Flint Michigan’s water are hard to forget. For months in 2016, residents drank from taps running gasoline-colored...

Nov 15, 2023 Children's Health

Issue Brief: Heavy Metals in Baby Food

The presence of heavy metals in baby foods is harmful to infant development and can impact a child’s health...

Nov 13, 2023 Environmental Health

The Danger of Heavy Metals in Baby Foods

What a child eats in infancy — or doesn’t — strongly influences their future health. Good nutrition promotes proper development...