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EPR commission approves sending paint extended-producer-responsibility recommendation to Legislature
Summary
The Massachusetts Extended Producer Responsibility Commission voted to send a draft recommendation asking the Legislature to enact paint EPR legislation aligned with neighboring states. The Attorney General's office and several commission members sought language clarifying the commission does not formally endorse specific pending bills.
The Extended Producer Responsibility Commission voted June 18 to send a recommendation to the Legislature urging enactment of an extended-producer-responsibility (EPR) program for architectural paint.
The commission's draft asks the Legislature to enact paint EPR that "follows and tracks" programs operating in Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York, and notes that draft bills are currently pending at the Statehouse (house 886 and senate 647), but it does not direct the Legislature to adopt any single pending bill.
John Bieling, deputy commissioner for policy and planning at the Massachusetts Department of…
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