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It's Your Oregon: John Frewing It's Your Oregon: John Frewing
It was 1972. The US Congress passed the Clean Water Act. One amazing provision was for funds to support citizen education. Another provided citizen lawsuits for enforcement. Washington and Oregon citizens worked together for an education conference to be held in Seattle, near the University of Washington.
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Protecting Children's Health from Toxic BPA

More and more evidence shows that the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is harmful to children’s health. Yet manufacturers still use BPA in products such as baby bottles, infant formula cans, and other food containers.
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SB 1032: BPA legislative fact sheet

Scientific studies show that the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is harmful to children’s health. Yet BPA is used to make bottles and other containers that can leach the chemical into food or drink.
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SB 1059: Creating Climate-Friendly Communities

This way of designing communities offers many benefits: families don’t pay as much for transportation, infrastructure costs tend to be lower, more walking and bicycling leads to better health, and less pollution is generated.
Why federal chemical regulation is broken:  new science on BPA and low-dose exposure

Why federal chemical regulation is broken: new science on BPA and low-dose exposure

The American Medical Association and the Endocrine Society have agreed that current chemical regulation and risk assessment is not adequate to protect the public from endocrine disrupting chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA).

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