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California Assembly Bill 939 History of Cahfomia Solid Waste Law, 1985-1989, Cal Recycle, http //www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Laws/Legislation/CalHist/1985tol989.htm (June 2014). 

California Assembly Bill 32 (AB32) includes the following ... 

California Air Resources Board, Definition of a Low-Emission Motor Vehicle in Compliance with the Mandates of Health and Safety Code Sections 39037.5 (Assembly Bill 234, Leonard, 1987). Available from the California Air Resources Board, Mobile Source Division, 9528 Telstar Ave., El Monte, CA, May 1989. 

Dibromochloropropane (DBCP) in California and Hawaii. DBCP has now been found in 2500 private domestic, public, and irrigation wells in California, and was recently found to have leached 400 feet downward through the unsaturated or vadose zone (44). California State Assembly Bill 1803, passed in 1984, requires the state health department to monitor 40 priority pesticides and other organics. The remaining use of DBCP on pineapples in Hawaii was cancelled (45). In a collaborative effort between EPA and USGS,... 

However, a study conducted up to December 2004 showed that, of the 115 studies on BPA, 94 had found a significant link between low-dose exposure and developmental or reproductive harm [43, 44]. In the same study the authors ask the EPA to conduct a new risk-assessment of the chemical. In addition, another recent report covering the literature on the health effects of BPA leachate at low doses [41] has found a sound correlation, and similarly concludes that a risk assessment is necessary. There is a report from the American Plastics Council indicating that BPA has 1,2-dichloroethane effects on human health, and the California Assembly s Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee has approved a bill to ban the use of BPA in products intended for use by children under three. The HCRA stated that inconsistent results indicate that evidence of 1,2-dichloroethane effects in laboratory animals would not likely be replicated in humans [42]. 

In the United States, California introduced California s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 AB32 (Assembly Bill 32) to set an absolute statewide limit on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. AB 32 requires the state of California to lower GHGs to 1990 levels by 2020 through a series of programs and industrial incentives (California Cap and Trade 2013). 

U.S. Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. 2006. AB 1850 Assembly Bill—Bill Analysis. Hearing June 20, 2006. Sacramento, CA State of California. 

Another development occurring on the regulatory front is the activity at the state and local level. New Jersey, Texas California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina have all considered new or special approaches to biotechnology regulation, some with new legislation. In New Jersey, a moratorium measure was introduced in 1986, which later, as a compromise bill incorporating a review commission, passed unanimously in the state Senate. That bill is still waiting a vote in the New Jersey assembly. 

Bill Hase received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1970, working in the research area of experimental physical chemistry under the direction of John W. Simons at New Mexico State University. His research included studies of the methylene singlet-triplet energy gap and of the unim-olecular decomposition of vibrationally excited alkane and alkylsilane molecules prepared by chemical activation. His career as a computational chemist began during his postdoctoral work with Don Bunker at the University of California, Irvine. In 1973 he joined the Chemistry Department at Wayne State University, where he remained until 2004, when he assumed the Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at Texas Tech University. He remembers that his hrst computational chemistry classical trajectory computer program was written in assembly language and run on a PDP-10. 

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