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Megan Phillips
(Photo provided) ELIZABETHTOWN The Adirondack Council has hired Megan Phillips of Albany to be the environmental advocacy group’s vice president for conservation. Since November 2018, Phillips has been Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s senior policy advisor for energy and the environment, overseeing 12 state agencies and authorities and implementing the administration’s policy initiatives. She has more than a decade of experience in conservation, serving in state government roles in New York and with a private organization in Wisconsin. At the Adirondack Council, she will fill a leadership void left by the departure of Deputy Director Raul “Rocci” Aguirre, who had served a decade as the Council’s conservation director. He is the new executive director of Scenic Hudson in Poughkeepsie.
Manufacturers should establish supplier assurance programs that screen for heavy metals, especially for high-risk products, she said: While there may not be established federal tolerances, California s Proposition 65 has established limits for arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury and is arguably the most consumer protective regulation in the US when it comes to heavy metals. As to the old adage that the dose is the poison, contaminants like lead are the exception that prove the rule: The EPA, FDA, WHO, the CDC, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have all independently stated there is no safe level of lead for children. In this case, the poison is the poison.