Hello everyone,
All personal care, and cleaning products, etc. end up in our bodies, down the drain, in the air, and in the soil. What's on the label of the products you purchase? Can you trust them to be safe for all they touch?
Please see this important story from the San Fransisco Chronicle today.
A few years ago, I went to the first California Green Chemistry Initiative meeting. I was so pleased that CA EPA put it together as I sat next to the rep from Clorox and shared the many benefits to his brand, by talking the lead on getting the unnecessary dangerous ingredients from their cleaning products.
Now, as usual, the Corporate Lobbyist are undermining the progress of reducing toxic harm to consumers and the environment.
Please let this agency, our Governor, and your State Representatives know that you insist they choose the highest standards, so that when California says it's Green, we can trust that standard is best one possible to keep our families, pets and environment truly safe.
Thank you for taking all needed actions to hold our government accountable for providing California, and Californians the deepest shade of Green. This is an economic bonus as well; it's well known that folks pay more for safer choices when they shop.
The more really safe Green products are made in CA, and the USA, the more robust our and State and national economies, and everyone's habitat, will be! We all can win, even the corporate interests.
Besides, what price can you put on your health?
Much thanks,
Colleen Fernald
Mom for a safe, clean community & world
Chemistry regulation called `'a step backward'?
Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Friday, December 3, 2010
http://www.sfgate.com/...
(12-03) 04:00 PST Sacramento - --
A coalition of environmental and health organizations has accused the Schwarzenegger administration of gutting a proposed regulation intended to ensure consumer products contain chemicals that are safe for human use and the environment. The regulation would implement California's Green Chemistry Initiative, a program to identify harmful chemicals in products such as toys, makeup and household cleaners, and in product manufacturing. The state Department of Toxic Substances Control is overseeing the planning for the initiative, which would force manufacturers to replace harmful products with safer alternatives.
On Thursday, the coalition members said the agency abruptly revised a section of the proposed regulation to benefit the chemical industry. Coalition members said the changes, which include limiting the focus of the regulation to three specific types of products at the start of the effort, could reverse progress.
"It's particularly troubling because this version of the regulation represents a step backward from even what we have today," said Ansje Miller, campaign director of Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy, the coalition that has been involved in the green chemistry effort...