These documents provide critical information about the issues supporting policy making. As they are developed, they will create a common understanding and language about the critical factors in establishing a Green Chemistry Vision for California.
- How to Stimulate Green Chemistry Technologies Work Group Discussion Questions, September 12, 2007
The How to Stimulate Green Chemistry Technologies Work Group identified questions pertinent to this part of the Green Chemistry Initiative. We welcome your comments and insights to any or all of the questions. Please submit your responses to the California Green Chemistry Initiative Blog. ....more
The Cradle to Cradle Work Group identified questions pertinent to this part of the Green Chemistry Initiative. We welcome your comments and insights to any or all of the questions. Please submit your responses to the California Green Chemistry Initiative Blog page. ...more
The Toxics in Products by Accident Interagency Work Group has been reviewing comments provided on the blog. In doing so, the Work Group has identified several questions that are pertinent to this part of the Green Chemistry Initiative. We hope that you will provide your comments and insights to any or all of the circumstances and questions posted. ....more
The Green Chemistry initiative provides an opportunity to protect California by acting to restrict or eliminate especially dangerous substances and by mandating safer alternatives....more
Dial very much appreciates your ongoing efforts to ensure industry inclusion during the discussions on the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) California Green Chemistry Initiative. We also appreciate this opportunity to provide comments on the Green Chemistry Initiative....more
The issues faced by workers dealing with toxic chemicals are serious and long-overdue to be addressed comprehensively. Because of WORKSAFE's commitment to this goal....more
The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), a provider of municipal water to 1.3 million customers in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, appreciates this opportunity to comment on the Department of Toxic Substances Control's (DTSC) California Green Chemistry Initiative, which is a new program designed to cut toxic chemicals in consumer products....more
The City of Palo Alto commends your efforts to engage the public in compiling options for promoting Green Chemistry and for improving California's policies for addressing toxic pollutants....more
The following recommendations are submitted on behalf of the tens of thousands of California members of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals....more
On behalf of the Chemical Industry Council of California* (CICC), I am pleased to submit our comments regarding the Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI) for your consideration....more
The Leadership Group proposes the following policy elements to further Green Chemistry in California....more
The Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA) has appreciated your continual efforts to include us in the discussions and stakeholder input on the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) California Green Chemistry Initiative. We also appreciate this opportunity to provide supplemental comments....more
Johnson & Johnson recommends specific policy points should be structured around the following policy goals and objectives....more
The California Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (CalARVC) requests that the Department of Toxic Substance Control prohibit the import, sale, or use of certain RV toilet additives as part of the California Green Chemistry Initiative....more
The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) is pleased to offer the following comments on policy options being considered in the context of Cal-EPA’s Green Chemistry Initiative. Many of the comments submitted to DTSC to date and debated in public forums refer to the need for California to supplement the requirements of the Federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)....more
On behalf of Environment California Research & Policy Center, we write to thank you for your leadership on the Green Chemistry Initiative and to offer recommendations for the development of a comprehensive approach to regulating chemicals in California....more
....We wish to thank you for establishing a process, through workshops, symposia, and the on-line Conversation with California, by which we and others interested in the development of green chemistry in our state could voice our views and learn what other constituents are thinking....more
Fossil-fuel-based plastic use in our society continues to grow at an exponential rate, creating a plethora of environmental impacts for California, the oceans and, increasingly....more
The REACH program currently underway in the E. U. would be a wonderful model for California. In addition to this, however, we need to zero in on those toxins to which the general public is being heavily exposed on a daily basis. At the top of this list is....more
....to ensure that in addition to incentive programs, the Initiative implements protective regulations....more
The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF) is pleased to offer the following recommendations to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) for your consideration in developing and implementing the Cal-EPA Green Chemistry Initiative....more
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is pleased to provide the attached paper on the role educational programs could play in California’s Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI)....more
....in support of the Green Chemistry Initiative to restrict or eliminate dangerous substances in California....more
....include the problem of chemicals being used in our daily lives that have not been tested for neurotoxicity in children....more
....two tools have been identified that require coordination and work to fully implement. These tools are standardization of....more
On November 1, 2007, the California Medical Association adopted Resolution 712-07, A Modern Chemicals Policy for California, introduced by the San Francisco Medical Society.
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) appreciates the opportunity to provide additional comments on a recent discussion initiated by the California Environmental Protection Agency on chemicals management policy....more
Dow Chemical is pleased to submit its Green Chemistry thoughts in the following areas of Incentives, Environmentally-Preferred Purchasing, Consumer Choice, Eco-labels, and Lifecycle Analysis.
We write to you today on behalf of CHANGE, Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy. Ours is a broad-based growing coalition of approximately 35 environmental and environmental justice groups, health organizations, labor advocates, community based groups, parent organizations, and others who are concerned with the impacts of toxic chemicals on human health and the environment, as well as....more
- Two reports that are germane to the issues and options being considered under the Green Chemistry Initiative: Not That Innocent: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian, European Union and United States Policies on Industrial Chemicals and High Hopes, Low Marks: A Final Report Card on the High Production Volume Chemical Challenge; Denison, R.A. (2007), Environmental Defense, Washington, DC.
The overall mission of the RAM committee is to augment current exposure and risk assessment methods and model development efforts through projects, workshops, and scientific symposia aimed at addressing critical issues such as data needs, data characterization, and model evaluation....more
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and the Center for Occupational Environmental Health (COEH) sponsored the Practical Decision Making Tools for Identifying Safer Alternatives Workshop on October 1-2, 2007. This summary, based on notes developed by session three’s facilitator, captures….more
The Society of Environmental Journalists sponsored a Green Chemistry panel on Sept. 8 as part of its National Conference at Stanford. The session, well attended by journalists from across the country, included panelists....more
- The California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance (CCEEB) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization of business, labor and community leaders that seeks to achieve the State's environmental goals in a manner consistent with a sound economy. CCEEB appreciates this opportunity to.....more
In its June 29, 2007 letter to Linda S. Adams, Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Dow Chemical Company (Dow) applauds the goals of California Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Chemistry Initiative.....more
- In response to Cal-EPA's solicitation for initial comments on its Green Chemistry initiative, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) has identified five steps central to this baseline assessment. These actions will ensure that DTSC has sufficient and valid information to clearly identify any data or regulatory gaps, describe potential risks presented by such gaps and define a reasonable range of options to .....more
- A breakthrough technology providing a green renewable hydrogen fuel requiring no carbon based fossil fuel nor utility electricity for its generation yielding neither C02 nor any other polluting and greenhouse emissions. .....more
- California could become the world leader in Green Chemistry by developing a labor pool of non- PhD scientists trained in the principles and applications of Green Chem .... If the State set up a Green Chemistry curriculum through the UC system or the community colleges, industry would flock to California to take advantage .....more
- On behalf of the Breast Cancer Fund and its 17,000 California members, thank you for your leadership on the development of the Green Chemistry Initiative. As you have stated, California needs to adopt a new approach to toxics found in the environment, in our consumer products and in our bodies. We look forward.....more
- I recently learned about the California Green Chemistry Initiative, and I would like to offer several comments and observations about the initiative from the perspective of the American Chemical Society (ACS)─the world’s largest scientific society.....more
- The American Chemistry Council (ACC) represents the leading companies engaged in the business of chemistry in the United States. We appreciate this opportunity to provide.....more
- On behalf of Clean Water Action and our 20,000 California members, I wish to express our support for the development of the Green Chemistry Initiative. We applaud DTSC’s desire to take a leadership role in developing green chemistry in our state and look forward.....more
- .....Our organizations represent many of California’s leading industries and employers. Collectively, we fully support science and risk based chemicals management policies that simultaneously protect health and the environment, assure product safety and promote innovation in the marketplace in California. We hope.....more
- Sierra Club California applauds the launch of the Cal-EPA "Green Chemistry Initiative," and we look forward to working with you to prevent pollution from toxic chemicals. At this initial stage.....more
- On behalf of the Chemical Industry Council of California* (CICC) I am pleased to offer these initial comments. Before doing so, however, let me take this opportunity to.....more
- On behalf of AeA (American Electronics Association) and our nearly 2,700 high tech member companies nationwide, I am writing to thank you for your leadership in launching the California Green Chemistry Initiative. AeA is committed.....more
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For most of the last century, DuPont has been among the largest chemical producers, globally. Our 200 year heritage of leadership in workplace safety, toxicology, science and technology positioned us as a premier company in safely handling hazardous chemicals.....more
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