Interested in environmental marketing? Do you make and sell plastic products? Partner Sheila Millar discusses a bill likely to become law in California that further restricts environmental marketing claims for plastic products sold in California. AB 2287 would expand restrictions on plastic degradability claims by effectively banning marine degradable claims. Read the full article.
Product Safety
EPA’s Nancy Beck Nominated to Head CPSC
By Sheila Millar on
Posted in Product Safety
Some months after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Nancy Beck was rumored to be the President’s choice to serve as Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the news is now official. The White House announced Beck’s nomination on March 2, 2020.
Beck’s nomination, if approved by the Senate, would bring the CPSC back…
FTC Gives Energy Labeling Rule a Facelift
By Sheila Millar & Jean-Cyril Walker on
Posted in Product Safety
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s Energy Labeling Rule has a new look. Following a public comment period, the FTC issued amendments to the Energy Labeling Rule that reorganize the Rule’s product descriptions and categories to make them clearer and simpler for stakeholders to understand and apply. But the FTC’s changes are cosmetic – the agency…