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Newsletter – Spring 2013, Volume 32, Number 1
What’s inside: Taking on Fracking – Don’t Gag Docs | Fumigant Free by 2020 | Protecting CEQA – CA’s Landmark Environmental Bill | Victory! Prescription for Toxic-Free Fire Safety | LA City Council Resolutions: San Onofre and Cleaning Up SSFL | Ten Bills on PSR-LA’s State Agenda | Member Profile: James Dahlgren, MD | Member Corner: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Are Not Due Only to Over-Prescribing
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Supporting a Fracking Moratorium in California
Yesterday, California’s Assembly heard three bills that called for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing: AB 649 by Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, AB 1301 by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, and AB 1323 by Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell. PSR-LA supports all three of these authors and their bills.
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California Shouldn’t Keep Fracking Chemicals a Secret!
The first of 10 fracking bills pending in the California Legislature this session is SB 4 by by Senator Fran Pavley, which will have a committee hearing on April 9th. PSR-LA opposes SB 4 unless amended remove language that “makes it the policy of the State of California to elevate the financial gain of select oil and gas industry players over the health and environment of the people of California.”
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Press Release: Doctors Speak Out Against the Dangers of Keeping Fracking Chemicals Secret
California is fast becoming the new frontier for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a process that will introduce hundreds of thousands of gallons of chemicals—many of which are toxic—into the environment. Oil and gas companies are bringing not only their drill rigs, they are also bringing their lawyers, lobbyists, and public relations firms to convince California’s regulators and legislators to shield their operations — and harm that fracking may cause– from public view.
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Press Release: Toxic Flame Retardant Chemicals- Showdown with Chemical Industry, Health and Fire Safety Advocates
Public health, environmental, social justice, labor, and firefighter organizations gave testimony and submitted more than 87,000 signatures to support the revision. These signatures represent people from every state, and public interest organizations from 36 countries also sent letters, urging California to quickly move forward for improved fire safety without relying on toxic chemicals.
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LA City Council Approves Resolution to Cleanup Santa Susana Field Laboratory
The Los Angeles City Council approved a resolution on March 20 to oppose any legislation or administrative action which would transfer property at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) currently administered by NASA until the property is fully cleaned up.
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Governor Brown’s Toxic-Free Fire Safety Regulation Unveiled
(Sacramento) Consumers, environmental health advocates, health professionals, and firefighters applauded Governor Jerry Brown’s new fire safety regulation today, issuing this statement. The draft language of TB 117-2013 was posted for a 45-day public comment period today, and aims to improve fire safety without the use of toxic flame retardant chemicals linked to neurodevelopmental impairment, infertility, and cancer.
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Press Release: Coalition Launched to Protect CEQA
Coalition of Leading Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Labor Groups Launched to Protect the California Environmental Quality Act. Poll shows nearly 2/3 of California voters oppose weakening CEQA.
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What’s in Your Food? People Have a Right to Know
People should have information about the presence of genetically engineered ingredients in their food both when there may be a benefit to the person eating (for example, rice used in poor countries that includes Vitamin A), and when there are benefits only to the producer.
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LA City Council Endorses Prop 37 to Label GMOs
We did it! Thanks to your calls to LA City Council, signing petitions, and coming in person to show support, the LA City Council endorsed Yes on 37! It’s about time we start labeling GMOs in California. We have a right to know what’s in our food.
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Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles
Don’t Gag Docs!
Today, PSR-LA is launching our “Don’t Gag Docs” campaign! The purpose of the effort is to raise awareness about the big push by the oil and gas industry to have the content of the chemical fracking cocktail used in fracking treated as a “trade secret.”
Press Release: Toxic Flame Retardant Chemicals- Showdown with Chemical Industry, Health and Fire Safety Advocates
Public health, environmental, social justice, labor, and firefighter organizations gave testimony and submitted more than 87,000 signatures to support the revision. These signatures represent people from every state, and public interest organizations from 36 countries also sent letters, urging California to quickly move forward for improved fire safety without relying on toxic chemicals.
A Prescription for Toxic-Free Fire Safety
For decades, toxic and untested flame retardant chemicals have been added to our furniture and baby products, but they haven’t worked to protect us from fires as promised. Take action now to demand improved fire safety and immediate protection from toxic chemicals.
LA City Council Approves Resolution to Cleanup Santa Susana Field Laboratory
The Los Angeles City Council approved a resolution on March 20 to oppose any legislation or administrative action which would transfer property at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) currently administered by NASA until the property is fully cleaned up.
March 29- Webinar – Fracking in California: Oil company efforts to gag doctors and public health researchers about its impacts
Join us for a March 29th webinar as we provide an overview of oil and gas extraction in California, discuss fracking and its impacts on public health and the environment, and lay out the various regulatory and legislative efforts underway to address the quickly expanding use of fracking in California.
Stop the Doctor Gag Rule Proposed in CA Fracking Regulations!
For the first time, California regulators are proposing rules on fracking, but they don’t go far enough to protect our health and environment. In fact, the proposed regulations include a doctor gag rule that would prevent physicians from sharing critical health information with patients who may be suffering from fracking related chemical exposures. This not only violates the doctor-patient relationship, but could also jeopardize patient treatment, and prevent public health research.