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Safer Consumer Products Program Releases Alternatives Analysis Guide – Comments Due October 23, 2015

Thu Oct 8th, On Environmental Law, by

The California Safer Consumer Products (“SCP”) program released the Draft Stage 1 Alternatives Analysis Guide (“AA Guide”) for comments. The AA Guide provides tools and examples of how to fulfill the first stage AA required by the SCP regulations. The AA guidance is an advisory resource. It is not a regulatory document or legal standard. Comments are due to Department of Toxic Substances Control (“DTSC”) before noon on October 23, […]

Public Comments to California Water-Fix Program Now Due By October 30, 2015

Mon Oct 5th, On Environmental Law, by

The comment period for California Water-Fix has been extended from August 31, 2015 to October 30, 2015. The two-month extension gives the public, government agencies, and independent scientists more time to consider refinements and changes made since last summer to the plan that seeks to secure California’s water supplies and improve ecosystem conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Delta is the West Coast’s largest estuary and is the hub […]

EPA Awards $800,000 to UCSB to Research Effects of Chemical Exposure

Thu Oct 1st, On Environmental Law, by

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has provided the University of California at Santa Barbara (“UCSB”) a grant of close to $800,000 to the model the ecological and toxicological impacts of chemicals in the environment. The grant is funded by the Science to Achieve Results (“STAR”) program. The STAR grants are part of EPA’s Chemical Safety for Sustainability research program’s efforts to develop new methods to improve chemical evaluation and […]

Update: OEHHA Extends Public Comment Period For Multiple Amendments to Proposition 65 Regulations

Mon Sep 28th, On Environmental Law, by

We previously reported that the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (“OEHHA”), the state agency responsible for implementing Proposition 65 (which requires businesses to warn consumers when the level of exposure from a consumer product exceeds a specific amount for a given chemical), is considering adopting a regulation that would establish background levels for certain chemicals, i.e., lead and arsenic, that are naturally present in unprocessed food. Our previous blog […]

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