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Dear Gentle Nurturing,
I have great news. Last month, we told you about two California state Senate bills that would ban toxic chemicals.
SB 1713 would ban BPA, a hormone disruptor, from baby bottles and sippy cups. SB 1313 would ban cancer-causing PFCs (Teflon chemicals) from food products. Both bills are sponsored by Environmental Working Group.
You took action, and it paid off.
Both bills have passed the Senate and all required Assembly committees. Now it's on to the full Assembly, where the fate of these bills will be decided in the coming weeks.
The chemical industry is waging an all-out lobbying war to kill the bills or take the teeth out of them so they're ineffective. A staff member for Sen. Corbett, author of the PFCs bill, counted 17 industry lobbyists working against SB 1313.
Chemical industry lobbyists are claiming that banning PFCs and BPA will cost California jobs and increase the cost of food for lower-income families. In fact, non-toxic substitutes for these chemicals are available and widely used, and would actually help all Californian families by taking poisonous chemicals out of their food and feeding products.
We'll keep you updated on these bills when they start moving forward. We've made a lot of progress, but our work here is far from done.
In the meantime:
Thank you again for taking action. Together, Californians can pave the way for the nation.
Sincerely,
Bill Walker
Vice President / West Coast
The Environmental Working Group is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to using the power of information to protect human health and the environment.The EWG Action Fund is a legislative advocacy organization that uses EWG research to promote healthy and sustainable policies.
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