Laurier also pointed out that cornstarch bags, far from being a worthy alternative to regular polyethylene, could in the long run be more harmfultotheenvironment.
The regulations will require manufacturers of selected products sold in California to identify safer alternatives to a potential range of 3, 000 chemicals known tobeharmfulto public health and theenvironment.
Not tobe deterred, the president then sought reforms after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide could be regulated under the Clean Air Act if the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that it was harmfulto human health and theenvironment.