Coal Tar Free USA

Dedicated to researching, educating, and advocating for the ban and elimination of toxic coal tar sealants (CTS) from our parking lots, homes, and environment.

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

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!

https://t.co/wzjh3GxG67

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

#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 https://t.co/kIcaPHfUWW

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

Steel plant shut down for environmental reasons including not treating coal tar residues as hazardous waste. https://t.co/zzy7SyPeM8

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

@bryan_johnson Bryan, what if I told you that many pavements around the US have 1000's of times more PAH in them and they are mobile. https://t.co/83i6BSZB2q

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

The City of Lake Forest Illinois became the 18th unit of government to ban this stuff in the State of Illinois. Who's next? https://t.co/wK6yP7k0zw

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

Suburban Chicago community (Lake Forest City Council) moves toward banning use of toxic coal tar sealant
@LWVChicago

https://t.co/gx0hO9hfeE

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

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."

https://t.co/ezLqIvqF5F

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

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

https://t.co/58iqJmXaBU

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

Coal tar sealers on your playgrounds?

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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... https://t.co/Owb8hZ4Lhl via @YouTube

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

Paul, I won’t be there to show you around but I would recommend a trip to Barton Springs Pool, a spring-fed natural pool which was the birthplace of the environmental movement in Austin and the discovery site of toxic paving products now being banned across North America https://t.co/fSBskvZHs1

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

@Mappy6984 @grok tell them why you should be careful about what material is used to do this

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

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!

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

#GoodNews from Canada! Legal manufacturing or importing of coal tar or high PAH pavement sealers ended October 1, 2025!

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

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?
https://t.co/bA77jHBglb

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

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?

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

"Driveway Sealants without Coal Tar Mean Cleaner Lakes" from Dane County, WI the nation's second oldest ban of coal tar sealers.

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

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 $?

[Coal Tar Free USA @CTFreeAmerica]

City of Charlotte wants you to about the ban of toxic paving products. ⁦@StormWaterCM⁩ https://t.co/LgPgUG2aBI

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Butter from coal tar "just as good as real butter!" #history https://t.co/zuxYRlUjfZ via @YouTube