California Reaches Out to the Environment
Published: 21 March 2007
Category: Bisphenol A (BPA), Packaging CONCERNS, Phthalates, Studies/State & Federal Regulations
According to the Environmental Health Perspectives, California legislators have initiated groundbreaking laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent over the next 13 years, reduce statewide vehicular emissions by 30 percent by 2016, and is also considering a statewide green chemistry policy that could exceed the scope of the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which sets national policy on chemicals used in products and industrial processes. According to this report, local governments have tightened environmental control, most notably, San Francisco, which recently passed the country’s first ban on baby products containing bisphenol A and has also regulated levels of phthalates in these products.