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NOTE:
This session of the course is jointly sponsored by the
Center for Community
Wellness,
in the School of Public Health, at the University of California,
Berkeley.
The Lomax/Brown-Williams
Presentation
Relevant
Legislation: "The Dots"
SB 849 (Escutia; establish an Office of Environmental Health Tracking).
SB 600 (Ortiz; create a biomonitoring program).
SB 484 (Migden; require reporting on safety of ingredients used in
cosmetics).
AB 289 (Chan; require testing/reporting of high volume chemicals).
AB 263 (Chan; require public information on health risks of products
containing brominated flame retardants).
AB 319 (Chan; ban manufacture/sale of products for children that contain
bispenol-A).
AB 990 (Lieber; create California Safer Chemical Substitutes Act).
AB 816 (Lieber; create chemical hazard evaluation system).
NOTE: For bill language and status
updates use the bill
search page at the Office of the Legislative Counsel.
Research Resources for Connecting the Dots
Legislative
Membership,
Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic
Materials
Membership,
Senate Committee on Environmental Quality
Members of
the California Assembly (alphabetical, with home page links)
Members
of the California Senate (alphabetical, with home page links)
EXECUTIVE
Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA)
Environmental Health
Investigations Branch, California Department of Health Services
(DHS)
California Environmental Health Tracking Program (CEHTP)
Principal Web Site for CEHTP
SB702 Expert
Working Group web site, with links to the full final report and
the CPRC policy brief
CIVIL SOCIETY
Commonweal (Biomonitoring
Resource Center, Health and Environment programs)
The Collaborative for Health and
the Environment
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),
Toxic Chemicals and
Health,
The Green
Gate for the Bay Area
Pesticide Action Network North America
American Lung
Association of California
THE UNIVERSITY
Center for
Environmental Public Health Tracking, School of Public Health,
University of California Berkeley |
