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CA Green Chemistry Author Backs Tough Chem Regs
Posted by Elaine Shannon in Green Science News, Legislation, State and Local on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
By Renee Sharp, Director, EWG California Office, and Bill Allayaud, California Director of Governmental Affairs
In September 2008, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a measure that aimed to strengthen California’s trail-blazing Green Chemistry Initiative and transform the way that chemicals...
Tests Find Hundreds of Pollutants in U.S. Tap Water
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Legislation, State and Local on December 13, 2009 | 4 Comments
Millions of Americans don’t trust that the water coming out of their taps is safe to drink. New research by Environmental Working Group (EWG) suggests that for many, there’s good reason to be concerned.
Over the last three years, EWG assembled an unprecedented database of 20 million tap water testing...
Curbing the Erin Brockovich Chemical
Back in 1991, a young paralegal poking around in some real estate files noticed a peculiar concentration of cancer in tiny Hinkley, CA.
The rest was almost history.
Erin Brockovich’s find led to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, whose compressor station, California state investigators determined ,...
Sacramento says: Let them eat BPA
Last week I realized (again) how hard it is for citizens to protect their children when corporate interests are at stake. It’s a maddeningly familiar equation:
Threat to children +
Overwhelming constituent support +
Solid science +
Well-financed industry opposition with fear tactics =
=...
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