Feature: Reforming Federal Chemical Policy
Reforming Federal Chemical Policy
More than 80,000 chemicals now in use have never been fully assessed for toxic impacts on human health and the environment. The chemical industry should have to demonstrate that a chemical isn’t dangerous before it’s used in everyday products. But the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has no such requirements. It’s time to require that all chemicals be tested for safety and grant the EPA the authority to protect the public from toxic chemicals.
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- chemical, chemicalreform, chemicals, perfluorinated, PFC, PFOA, PFOS, toxic, toxicchemicals, TSCA
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Posted December 1, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, Safe Chemicals Act, saferchemicalshealthyfamilies, takeouttoxics, toxics, TSCA
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Posted November 10, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, chemicals, righttoknow, takeouttoxics, toxic, toxicchemicals, toxins, TSCA
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Posted November 2, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, chemicalpolicyreform, chemicals, formaldehyde, takeouttoxics, TCE, toxic, TSCA
Last week, the latest New York Times/CBS poll was released, showing that the public’s approval of Congress had fallen to 9 percent, the lowest since the question was first asked in 1977. Today, NRDC is releasing the results of a...continued→
Posted October 18, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- chemicalpolicyreform, chemicals, EPA, GAO, Safe Chemicals Act, takeouttoxics, TCE, toxicchemicals, TSCA
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Posted October 12, 2011 by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment
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- california, flameretardants, toxics, TSCA
Today, the state of California has added the flame retardant, chlorinated Tris, or TDCPP to the Prop 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer. Today’s listing will not ban the chemical from use, but could result in labeling of consumer...continued→
Posted September 23, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- asbestos, cancer, carcinogens, chemicals, takeouttoxics, toxicchemicals, TSCA
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Posted August 30, 2011 by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment
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- california, flameretardants, PBDEs, pregnancy, prenatal, TSCA
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Posted August 10, 2011 by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment
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- flameretardants, PBDEs, pregnancy, toxicchemicals, TSCA
A study published today in the journal, Environmental Science and Technology, is further evidence that Californian’s are the most highly polluted people in the world with toxic flame retardant chemicals. Most concerning is that these high levels continue to be...continued→
Posted August 3, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- chemicals, righttoknow, takeouttoxics, toxicchemicals, toxins, TSCA
One of the many problems with our current system for regulating chemicals is that both EPA and the public lack good information on what chemicals are being manufactured in (or imported into) the U.S., how those chemicals are used, and...continued→
