State legislatures, environmental

In the state Legislature, discussions on pesticides are no longer the solely vested interest of the agricultural committees. Discussions now occur in natural resource committees where most environmental legislation is discussed. This activity causes all points of an issue about pesticides to be analyzed. 

Some of the earliest environmental laws to incorporate pollution prevention were passed by state legislatures. States such as Massachusetts and New Jersey promulgated laws which instituted provisions for "toxic use reduction" in efforts to minimize the degree to which hazardous substances are employed at various stages of manufacturing, processing and use of chemical products (7),... 

A useful report has recently been produced by Dewhurst [66] on hazards associated with the use of this element in laboratories and there is an excellent monograph on the environmental mercury problem by D ltri [60]. The latter is the result of a study commissioned by the Michigan State Legislature of the potential hazard presented by mercury pollution in the Great Lakes of North America. This is probably the most comprehensive study that has been made of mercury, for it covers the historical uses of the metal, its dispersion in the environment and its epidemiology and toxicology. 

Keller, A. Froines, J. Koshland, C. Reuter, J. Suffet, I. Last, J. Health and Environmental Assessment of MTBE in Gasoline, Report to the Governor and Legislature of the State of California as Sponsored by SB521, Vol. 1 Summary and Recommendations, Nov 1998. 

The Legislature went into extended session to pass the bill, by which time the Senate and House had become fully committed. The legislation was the most comprehensive environmental legislation in twelve years and set the course for many new initiatives in not only pesticides and groundwater but also hazardous waste and a state grant program for sewage plants. 

Chang P, Young T (1998) Reactivity and by-products of methyl tertiary butyl ether resulting from water treatment processes. Health and environmental assessment of MTBE. Report to the Governor and Legislature of the State of California. Available online at http //www.tsrtp.ucdavis.edu/mtberpt/homepage.html last visited 20 April 2007... 

Michigan Dept, of Environmental Quality, Green Glass Task Force Final Report to the Legislature, Eebruary 222, 2005, http //www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-whm-stsw-... 

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