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Chemical Industry Shifts on BPA After Spending Millions to Fight Legislation
Posted by GreenWire: Jeremy P. Jacobs on October 12th, 2011
Greenwire: The ACC email that arrived Friday afternoon said there's no reason to worry about bisphenol-A (BPA) in baby bottles and children's sippy cups because the controversial plastic additive is no longer used in those products in the United States.
The trade group's announcement came after Salter, the policy manager of the Breast Cancer Fund, had spent the past six years on the frontlines of a major battle over California legislation to ban BPA from those products.
Salter's group and others were...
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Water Utilities Failed to Alert Public to Presence of Likely Carcinogen, Group Says
Posted by GreenWire: Jeremy P. Jacobs on April 4th, 2011
Greenwire: U.S. water utilities have known about the prevalence of a likely carcinogen in water sources for seven years and have failed to share that information with the public, according to an advocacy group, which released today a 2004 industry study of hexavalent chromium.
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) Research Foundation study focused on hexavalent chromium in groundwater sources nationwide. The AWWA report was obtained and released by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group today. ...
Erin Brockovich Coming to Washington With Focus on Drinking Water
Posted by GreenWire: Jeremy P. Jacobs on March 1st, 2011
GreenWire: Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose crusade against a toxic chemical in California drinking water inspired a blockbuster 2000 movie, is heading to Capitol Hill this week to continue her fight.
Brockovich, who led the battle against hexavalent chromium -- a known carcinogen -- plans to meet with several members of Congress as well as regulatory agency officials, her spokeswoman said.
She plans to be on Capitol Hill starting tomorrow, with meetings running through the rest of the...