Tell New York Lawmakers: Vote Yes on the Fashion Act

Here’s some very good news! A groundbreaking law, New York State’s Fashion Environmental Accountability Act now sits before the state’s Assembly and Senate.

For decades the fashion industry has, without regulations, razed millions of trees, endangered species, filled the atmosphere with close to 900 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2e) annually, contributed 35% of all the microfibers in the oceans, contaminated ground waters with pesticides and dumped reprotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic chemicals used in dyes and treatments into freshwater systems around the world. Just to name a few things.

Brands will simply not change without legislation. So…what does this bill do? It requires that brands that exceed one hundred million dollars in annual gross sales:

• report their Greenhouse Gas Emissions and set and achieve climate reductions in line with the Paris Agreement
• report their suppliers’ wastewater chemical concentrations, water usage, chemical inventory and that these suppliers are in compliance with local chemical management laws
• embed responsible labor and business practices including fair contracts
• develop and submit an annual supply chain due diligence report showing their activities to reduce and address environmental and social harms with the report made publicly available on the seller’s website

Join with EARTHDAY.ORG to pass the historic New York Fashion Act – a groundbreaking law that will finally change the industry for the good of all.