All Entries Tagged With: "Chemical Policy Reform"
Stand Against the Chemical Industry on BPA
Thanks to your support this year, SB 797 (The Toxics-Free Toddlers and Babies Act), which would eliminate the use of bisphenol-A (BPA in children’s feeding containers, is headed to the Assembly floor for a vote in a few short days! Decision makers need to hear the trusted voice of physicians and health advocates again — we are facing very powerful opposition from the chemical industry, and our legislators need to put public health first.
Aug. 9 – What’s In Your Baby’s Bottle?
Come out to help ban BPA in baby bottles and formula in California! Please join Senator Fran Pavley, Environmental Working Group, Breast Cancer Fund and Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles for this exciting event in support of The Toxics-Free Babies and Toddlers Act (SB 797):
Exploring the Links Between Reproductive Health and Chemicals
The June 24th, 2009 training session of PSR-LA’s Environmental Health Ambassador Program “Exploring the Links Between Women’s Reproductive Health and Chemicals” was a great success! Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH and Richard Jackson, MD, MPH speak about women’s reproductive health.
Become an Environmental Health Ambassador—June 24
With the successful launch of our Peace and Security Ambassador program this past winter, we are pleased to announce another in-depth training series for health professionals: PSR-LA’s Environmental Health Ambassador Program on June 24, 2009.
Oct. 13 – “Poisoned Profits” Book Event
Call Ana at 213-689-9170 for more information In this shocking and sobering book, journalists Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. The book is based on more than five years of investigative research and reporting, reveals the cumulative scientific evidence connecting the [...]
Op Ed | California’s New Chemical Laws: They Fail to Protect Us
This op-ed was published in Environmental Health News By Kathy Attar and Martha Dina Argüello Every month we read about a toxic chemical in another product that we use in our homes. Toys, shower curtains, cosmetics, and food packaging are all recent examples. Parents and families have been forced to become amateur chemists deciphering the [...]
PSR-LA hosts the Annual Coming Clean Conference
PSR-LA is a member-organization of Coming Clean, a six-year old collaborative of more than 100 local, state, national and international organizations working towards a toxic free future via chemical industry reform. From March 16-19, PSR-LA hosted the 2007 Annual Coming Clean Conference at the Wilshire Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The over 60 conference goers represented a [...]
Chemical Information Act Needed
Currently, there are more than 80,000 chemicals registered for use in the United States, 1,400 of them considered high-production-volume chemicals, yet data on human exposure exists for only six percent. Of the 58 million pounds of chemicals reportedly released annually in the state of California, scientists are able to track less than 10% of these chemicals as they find their way into the air [...]
2006 California Legislative Wrap-Up
PSR-LA was at the forefront of a number of legislative battles in Sacramento this year. There were many victories and a few defeats. To follow is a snapshot of how our busy year in Sacramento went. Signed AB 32: A landmark global warming initiative that imposes the nation’s first cap on greenhouse gas emissions. AB [...]