Victory: Sulfoxaflor ruling comes just in time to protect bees pollinating California’s almond crop Alameda, CA —A California Superior Court ruled late Friday that the bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor can no longer be used in the state because its approval violated state environmental law. The ruling comes in a case brought by the American Beekeeping Federation […]
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Unionists and Climate Activists in a Fight Over Job Protection
THE ENVIRONMENT – It’s been more than six years since lax safety management led to an explosion at ExxonMobil’s oil refinery in Torrance, California. Worse than the accident itself, the blast nearly caused a major humanitarian catastrophe in Los Angeles County’s crowded South Bay: Heavy debris from the explosion narrowly missed hitting alkylation tanks containing hydrofluoric […]
Proposition 65: Legal and Technical Implications of Listing PFOA as a Carcinogen
On March 19, 2021, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) released a Notice of Intent (NOI) to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as a carcinogen under Proposition 65 via the Authoritative Bodies mechanism.[i] PFOA belongs to a broad class of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are fluorinated man-made chemicals. Proposition […]
California Proposes Designating PFOA as a Carcinogen under Proposition 65
Designation of PFOA as a Carcinogen Will Increase Litigation Risks and Expand Proposition 65 Labeling Obligations On March 19, 2021, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that it intends to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as a chemical known to the State to cause cancer under California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement […]
Notice Of Intent To List Chemical By The Authoritative Bodies Mechanism: Perfluorooctanoic Acid
Public Comments Date: Friday, March 19, 2021 to Monday, May 3, 2021 The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) (CAS RN 335-67-1) as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65[1]). This […]
Thousands Of Toothbrushes To Be Delivered To Los Angeles USD Families As Part Of Massive Oral Health Campaign
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The water is mostly fluoridated in Los Angeles and yet, as the following article reports, “Screenings of nearly 3,400 elementary school students across Los Angeles found that 66% of children currently had dental disease, 27% had visible tooth decay and 6% required emergency care.” See also the 2017 report Status […]
Arcata’s janky fluoride rig getting an upgrade
The Integrity Municipal Systems LLC Fluoride Feed System. Mad River Union ARCATA – The City Council last week approved a $38,000 upgrade to its fluoride feed system. The current system, cobbled together from disparate parts, is old, janky, fussy and not the safest for city workers. Upgrading it hasn’t been easy. Vendors were either unresponsive […]
OC water districts file massive lawsuit over PFAS contaminants
11 agencies seek hundreds of millions of dollars from DuPont, 3M, others. Ricardo Medina, an Orange County Water District research associate, loads ion exchange resins into a treatment system to filter out PFAS toxins. The district is testing 14 different products to determine the best to remove the carcinogenic chemicals from dozens of Orange County […]
California Water District PFAS Lawsuit – $1 Billion At Stake
In August 2020, we flagged the possibility that local water boards in Orange County, California would file a lawsuit alleging that certain PFAS manufacturers were responsible for PFAS contamination found in the local drinking water sources, with possible damages of over $1 billion dollars in cleanup costs. On December 1, 2020, eleven local water districts, including the […]
Income Disparities Widen the Gap in Oral Health of California Adults
Income, education, neighborhood and immigration status can play a significant role, researchers say More than 1 in 4 adults in California report having poor oral health, but that figure rises to roughly 1 in 2 for the state’s lowest-income residents and drops to 1 in 5 for those with the highest incomes, according to a […]