Dedicated to researching, educating, and advocating for the ban and elimination of toxic coal tar sealants (CTS) from our parking lots, homes, and environment.
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Philadelphia has a lot of green stormwater initiatives but tolerates the continued use of toxic coal tar that fouls our ecosystem. Why is that? powersurgeplus.com/blog/coal…
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This week I will give a talk with Dr. Anne Jacobs at 2026 TFMA Technical Summit on Enhancing Flood Professionals’ Capacity to Support Communities (Flood Trauma). Hoping for a great turnout! - via #Whova event app
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If sidewalk chalk could talk, it would tell you not to use toxic coal tar sealers. #crayola
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10 Years after a ban: Minnesota still dealing with the toxic legacy of coal tar pavement sealers wdio.com/top-stories/palm-st…
McHenry County, IL is about to seal the the parking lots at one of their health departments. Fortunately they are continuing their practice to prohibit toxic coal tar sealers! If only the rest of the state were this proactive!
mchenrycountyil.gov/home/sho…
#EarthDay is this week and get us in the mood there's a school district in Midland, Michigan that routinely coats their parking lots with toxic coal tar sealers YET is receiving a "Green School Award" on Saturday! Really!?
#GreenSchools content.myconnectsuite.com/a…
Steel plant shut down for environmental reasons including not treating coal tar residues as hazardous waste. business-standard.com/compan…
The City of Lake Forest Illinois became the 18th unit of government to ban this stuff in the State of Illinois. Who's next? cityoflakeforest.com/communi…
Suburban Chicago community (Lake Forest City Council) moves toward banning use of toxic coal tar sealant
@LWVChicago
chicagotribune.com/2026/03/0…
The "black rain" falling in Iran is made up of the same chemicals found in toxic driveway sealers and can "cause chronic short- and long-term health problems."
theconversation.com/what-is-…
What's on your driveway? Reduction in exposure to 30 chemicals top ways to reduce cancer risk.
40% of cancers are caused by 30 controllable factors
nypost.com/2026/02/05/health…
Summarizing 20 years of work on toxic pavement sealers to this conference of architects:
Material Health Open Innovation Symposium VI SESSION 2: All-Star Case St... youtu.be/7wnhnm2hHC0?si=8pu6… via @YouTube
This fall marks the 20th year since our nation's first ban of toxic coal tar pavement sealers! Check out the good that has happened since then!
#GoodNews from Canada! Legal manufacturing or importing of coal tar or high PAH pavement sealers ended October 1, 2025!
Thanks @SenMikeMoore on your tireless work on getting toxins out of our environment. And thank you for sponsoring the ban of coal tar sealers (S645). Have you seen this story about how it has affected a MA cancer survivor?
coaltarfreeusa.com/2015/08/g…
Next week the coal tar sealer industry meets to find an answer to this stubborn question:
How do you avoid more bans and loss of market share of your toxic product?
"Driveway Sealants without Coal Tar Mean Cleaner Lakes" from Dane County, WI the nation's second oldest ban of coal tar sealers.
The Cuyahoga River, you know the famous one that caught fire, is going to remove a dam with the equivalent of about 35 million, 5 gallon buckets of contaminated sediment. Over $100 million to be spent, but the continued use of toxic pavement sealers still legal upstream.
Shouldn't that be a requirement for cleanup $?
