CALIFORNIA ACTIVISTS LOSE BID TO STRENGTHEN EPA PACT ON PFOA CHEMICALS

Environmentalists appear to have lost their effort to win a California ban on allegedly harmful alternatives to the controversial chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) from food cartons, a move that activists had hoped would have put pressure on EPA to strengthen a landmark enforcement agreement targeting the chemicals. The California Senate late last month gave final approval to a scaled back bill banning PFOA after lawmakers dropped contentious provisions targeting alternatives, such as C-6. Industry groups are now lobbying California Gov...