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Federal Toxmap Shutters, Raising the Ire of Pollution Researchers
Earlier this year, with little explanation, the NLM announced that it would be “retiring” the Toxmap website on Dec. 16, 2019. The library did not respond directly to queries on Monday about what was meant by “retiring,” but by Tuesday morning, the Toxmap website had been taken down and visitors to the former URL were met with a message acknowledging the closure and pointing visitors to other potential sources of information. (An archived version of the old Toxmap landing page is preserved at the Internet Archive.) The decision to sunset the application has upset some of Toxmap’s most loyal users and raised concerns among environmental data advocates, who say that Toxmap’s demise would inhibit reliable public access to essential data about environmental hazards.
Governments Around the Globe: Earth Day Should Be a National Holiday – Sign the Petition! via @Change
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New York City’s newly passed Green New Deal, explained | Grist
“This package of bills will be the single largest carbon reduction effort in any city, anywhere, not just New York City, that has been put forward,” said Committee for Environmental Protection Chair Costa Constantinides in a committee hearing the morning of the vote.
Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act Passes in California Senate
SB 1249 makes it illegal for cosmetics manufacturers to sell any finished product or component that was knowingly tested on animals after January 1, 2020. The bill states that “Existing law prohibits manufacturers and contract testing facilities from using traditional animal testing methods within this state when an appropriate alternative …
Personal Care Products Safety Act
On May 11, 2017 Senator Feinstein of California and Senator Collins of Maine introduced S.1113 the Personal Care Products Safety Act. This is the first bill introduced to improve or update the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act which was passed in 1938. As we all can imagine it is woefully …