Fwd: Register Today: Webinar on How Preemption Affects Local Food Policy

[Heather Day]

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From: "ChangeLab Solutions" <ChangeLab...@mail.vresp.com>

Date: January 27, 2014 1:57:30 PM PST

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Subject: Register Today: Webinar on How Preemption Affects Local Food Policy

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Forward to a friend | View in your browser     Join Us Tomorrow to Learn How Preemption Affects Local Food Policy Around the country, advocates and local government officials are seeing an alarming trend: state legislatures adopting laws that say only the state can regulate in a particular public health area, including food policy. The state legislature may have no intention of ever addressing the issue at all – it has just forbidden all the cities and counties in the state from doing anything about it.   This void – known as the “regulatory vacuum” – eliminates local jurisdictions’ power to tailor policies to address their community’s needs, and it is undermining public health across the nation.   Join ChangeLab Solutions’ Ian McLaughlin, JD, and others for Local Food Policy and the Rotten Apple of Preemption. Roberta Friedman, ScM, Director of Public Policy for the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity will moderate the panel, which will also include Ted Mermin, JD, Med, of Public Good Law Center and Chris Klein, of the American Heart Association. You’ll learn what preemption is; how to recognize it; how it is used to fight meaningful public health reform; and is there anything you can do about it? This free webinar will be held Tuesday, January 28 from 11 am-12 pm PT (2 pm-3 pm ET). Register now! After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Can’t make it at this time tomorrow? The session will be recorded, and that recording will be made available to all registrants.   You can also learn more about preemption and how it affects public health by reading ChangeLab Solutions’ series of fact sheets on the issue. About ChangeLab Solutions ChangeLab Solutions is a national nonprofit creating law and policy innovation for the common good. We work to transform neighborhoods, cities, and states with practical policy solutions for safe places to live and be active, access to nourishing food, and more opportunities to ensure health. ChangeLab Solutions | www.changelabsolutions.org | (510) 302-3380 Photo Credit: ChangeLab Solutions. Copyright © 2014 ChangeLab Solutions. All rights reserved.

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