Chemicals Policy in the Great Lakes
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This workshop will explore state-level Green Chemistry initiatives and chemicals policy reform efforts, which aim to protect public health and the ecosystems in the Great Lakes basin. Participants will learn how chemicals policy is an integral aspect of Great Lakes restoration, and how green chemistry fits into this discussion.
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- 2. Michigan Network for Children ’s Environmental Health
- 3. The Michigan Network – Our Mission
- 6. We all have industrial chemicals in our bodies
- 8. Few Chemicals Have Been Adequately Tested
- 11. New report:
- 13. What do we want?
- 26. Contact us MNCEH Alexis Blizman Michigan Network for Children ’s Environmental Health 734-369-9281 [email_address] www.mnceh.org
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- Official presentation start slide.
- Children eat, drink, & breathe 2 1/2 times more pound for pound than adults. Increased metabolic rate. Smaller body size. Multiple exposures at once. Live closer to the floor. Hand-to-mouth behaviour. Children ’s developing bodies and brains are more vulnerable. Children are the future.
- Over 35 years ago, Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to control chemicals that pose an unreasonable risk to human health or the environment. Unfortunately, the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is outdated and ineffective. TSCA does not give the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adequate power to identify and regulate dangerous chemicals, leaving businesses in the dark about product safety. The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 would remedy thissituation by improving the safety of chemicals used in consumer products, increasing public informationon chemicals and their health impacts, ensuring that the EPA is using the best available science when doingresearch on chemicals, and supporting businesses that are innovating and voluntarily using safer chemicals.
- PBT ’s - They persist in the environment for long periods of time and can be transported long distances; they accumulate in living organisms and increase in concentration as they move up the food chain; and, they are highly toxic, often at very low levels of exposure. Because they exhibit all three of these hazardous properties, PBTs are inherently unsafe.
- Potent neurotoxin
- Michigan was the first state in the nation to have an executive directive entirely devoted to green chemistry
- One of the key activities of the Green Chemistry effort is to highlight and reward green chemisry innovators in the state with the Governors green Chemistry award
- Example of winner of one of the awards – a chemical made out of lobster shells that replaces a toxic formaldehyde ingredient!
- The exec directive establishes a roundtable, and that roundtable staffs the state program. The roundtable includes reps from industry, academia, health groups and environmental groups One of the activities of the group is to create an annual conference., This year it is in ann arbor. We hope you can make it.
- There is a tremendous lineup of speakers including the governor and the president of the university of michigan
- We have also launched a web portal to go live soon which will be the one stop shop for all things related to green chemistry in the state.
- Official presentation end slide.