Environmental Health Fund
December 20, 2005

A HUGE FIGHT AGAINST THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY NEEDS YOU TO WEIGH IN

Dear all:

We have until December 30th to comment on the Washington State bill to
protect kids, adults and the environment from unnecessary toxic flame
retardants, especially the one known as "deca." The bill in
Washington is a bellwether for what we can do elsewhere.

The industry is weighing in from all over the country to prevent a
protective bill.

We need to weigh in from all over the country to support it.

SO PLEASE GO TO www.watoxics.org. The ACTION ALERT will be
prominently at the top of the page and there are quick steps for you
to weigh in. Feel free to mention that the eyes of the country are
upon Washington to see if they will lead with a protective measure for
our families and our environment.

To provide more detailed comments please see the note from Ivy below.

Thanks for taking the time to support this. Without progress in
Washington our efforts elsewhere are weaker.

Judy Robinson
Environmental Health Fund

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FROM IVY SAGER-ROSENTHAL, WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION

Hello,

As many of you know, the Washington state Department of Ecology is
getting ready to finalize its recommendations on PBDEs. These
recommendations are critically important for our efforts to pass a
bill banning deca because legislators are looking to Ecology for
guidance. Ecology staff are getting lobbied hard by the bromine
industry and others. We need your help! It would be very helpful if
groups from outside the state could weigh in and support the
recommendation to ban deca.

The draft recommendations can be found here.

Please send your comments to Mike Gallagher, PBT Coordinator at the
Department of Ecology, by December 30th. His email is
mgal461@ecy.wa.gov.

Please feel free to contact me (isager-rosenthal@watoxics.org) or
Laurie Valeriano (lvaleriano@watoxics.org) if you have any questions
or concerns.

Thanks! -- Ivy

Ivy Sager-Rosenthal
Environmental Health Advocate
Washington Toxics Coalition
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. Suite 540E
Seattle, WA 98103
206-632-1545 ext. 122
www.watoxics.org