AB 289: Finding the chemicals in our environment

It’s troubling enough that tens of thousands of chemicals are introduced into commerce and the environment with little or no data on their health or environmental effects. But when public health and environmental scientists don’t even know how to detect the chemicals in the environment, the consequences can be potentially harmful. AB 289 (Chan) allows state agencies to require manufacturers of specified chemicals to give the state an analytical method for detecting the chemicals in the environment.