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31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
By Avinash Kar, NRDC and Eili Klein, Center on Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
By Avinash Kar, NRDC; Alvaro Casanova, Center for Environmental Health; and Carroll Wills, California Professional Firefighters [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
By David Wallinga and Avinash Kar, NRDC, and Eili Klein, Center on Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy [read post]
24 Aug 2013, 5:41 pm
"Five hundred times higher than safe levels is not protective of public health," said Avinash Kar, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which sued the state to issue the long-delayed standard. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
There is currently no flammability standard for upholstered furniture at the federal level. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Yesterday evening, the California legislature provided final approval for Assembly Bill 2998 by Assembly Member Bloom, moving the state one step closer to eliminating toxic flame retardant chemical [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
PFAS are a class of chemicals that are harmful to health and the environment, and they should be eliminated from the products that come into our homes and workplaces whenever possible, especially when the products spend significant times on our bodies and in our spaces. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is voting today on an issue that would put the Bay Area City at the forefront of US efforts to curb livestock antibiotic overuse—a driving cause of the public health crisis of antibiotic resistance. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The end of the legislative session in California brought welcome news on PFAS, a class of toxic “forever” chemicals consisting of 12,000+ chemicals. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The UN put out an important report yesterday that called much-needed attention to the antibiotic resistance crisis that imperils all of us—reporting that these so-called superbu [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Governor Newsom’s signature today put in place a new law authored by Assembly Member Ting that bans PFAS in paper-based food packaging, requires disclosure of chemicals of concern (such a [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
In a major victory for public health and independent science last week, a California Court of Appeal ruled against Monsanto and for California voters’ reliance on the findings of expert scientific bodies to identify dangerous chemicals. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The California Assembly took another step to protect Californians from toxic, “forever” PFAS chemicals by passing Assembly Bill 1200 (Ting) today. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
New York State Senator Kaminsky and Assembly Member Englebright have introduced a bill (S.4630A/A.5418) to ban toxic flame retardant chemicals in furniture and mattresses and particularly persistent organohalogen flame retardant [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
We are at a pivotal moment in the development of California’s Safer Consumer Products program, which aims to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals in consumer products and drive the transition to safer chemistries in products. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
In these troubled times, good news out of Maryland. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), Chair of the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee, introduced Senate Bill 392 this week to help improve California’s regulation of toxic chemicals in [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
In a series of recent front-page stories, the New York Times has explored the U.S. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 11:55 am
Our addiction to plastics imperil our health and the well being of the planet. [read post]
