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 ************* 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