A2: Environment

John Dingell is key to an effort to ban chemicals used in certain plastic toys, according to an article in the Free Press. “Dingell has the key vote,” Mike Shriberg, policy director for the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center, told the Free. “The issue is very simple to us. It’s all about whether the congressman is going to take one of the most potentially hazardous toxic chemicals out of toys, or whether he’s going to side with the chemical and oil industries.” [Source]