2007-2008 state environmental public health legislation

It provides summary information in the areas of children's environmental health, indoor air quality, exposure hazards related to: lead, mercury, asbestos, and pesticides. Of the 44 states that held regular sessions in 2008, 35 state legislatures introduced bills dealing with children's environmental health, focusing on issues such as children's exposure to tobacco smoke, prohibiting the manufacture or distribution of phthalates, bisphenol-A or lead-containing products, or limits on pesticide applications around schools or at public events. California also remains at the forefront of environmental health policy with legislation seeking to curb or ban certain chemicals, bills to monitor toxic discharges into waterways, recycling of mercury from thermometers, requirements for indoor air in schools and assessments of water toxicity levels in schools, and preparations of environmental impact statements before spraying pesticides in urban areas, to name a few.