toxics

Michal Freedhoff, the new director of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, has a long history as a toxics watchdog. Can she succeed?

While she plans to keep fighting for toxics disclosure at the state level, the state legislator has her eyes set on toxics disclosure reform nationwide

Fierce lobbying by the chemical and toy industries fails to kill the Toxics Disclosure for Healthy Kids Act, as the bill passes to the full House on a party-line vote.

January 22, 2013 -- According to public opinion polls, U.S. Senators are less well-liked and less well-respected than cockroaches, Sen. Jeff Merkley told a small crowd of physicians, nurses and community members last week. Doctors and nurses, on the other, consistently rank at the top of public opinion polls – so when it comes to public policy, their opinions often hold more sway.