Trump signs bill to help grandparents who are raising kids

grandparents and other relatives who are raising chil- dren affected by the crisis. WASHINGTON — President Trump last week also Donald Trump last week signed Brown’s bill to estabsigned two of Sen. Sherrod lish a voluntary cancer regBrown’s bills into law. istry for firefighters into law.

The first was aimed at supThe bill would require the porting grandparents who Centers for Disease Control are raising their grandchil- and Prevention to create and dren because of the opioid maintain a voluntary regiscrisis. try to collect data on can

The bill, also sponsored by cer incidence among fireSens. Bob Casey, a Pennsylfighters. The data collected vania Democrat, and Susan by the registry will be used Collins, a Maine Republican, with existing state data to would create a federal task better assess and prevent force to support grandpar- cancer among firefighters. ents raising grandchildren. The Senate passed Brown’s The task force would iden- bill in May. tify those grandparents, coorThe bill also requires the dinate and share informa- CDC to develop a strategy tion and resources to help to maximize participation, develop guidance for state Perfluorooctance Sulfonate critical of Brown’s Butch agencies and encourage fire- and Perfluorooctanoic Acid, Lewis Act, saying Brown is fighters to participate in the those at the base continue “promoting a bill that just registry. The law requires to be concerned about its won’t go anywhere.” the CDC to make sure the impact on the environment Renacci is challenging data they collect is made and those exposed to it. Brown for the Senate, and public and is accessible for He wrote that contamina- Brown is the co-chair of a research. tion at the base is well-docspecial committee aimed at umented; in 2016, the base fixing a multiemployer penshut down two drinking sion crisis that has endan- water wells when the subgered 150 to 200 multiem- stances were detected. The ployer pensions. base brought those wells Though Brown has repeat- back on line after building edly said he’s willing to a $2.7 million water treatentertain any idea that will ment facility. But the surhelp save the pensions, he rounding communities, he has introduced a bill that wrote, are still at risk. would provide a low-inter- est, 30-year-loan to trou- bled pensions with no cuts to benefits.

Brown wants EPA to discuss Dayton water

Brown is urging the EPA to meet in Dayton in order to hear from residents concerned about Per- and Poly- fluoroalkyl Substances contamination at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

In a letter to Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, Brown said after decades of use of firefighting foams containing toxic

Renacci says Brown backing dead-end bill

U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, a Wadsworth Republican, was