Feature: Demand Safe Chemicals
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. 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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Posted April 26, 2013 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- Safe Chemicals Act, saferchemicalshealthyfamilies, takeouttoxics, toxics, TSCA
This month, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand introduced the Safe Chemicals Act, for the new Congress. The bill would repair a badly broken federal law – The Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA) – which...continued→
Posted February 11, 2013 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- Safe Chemicals Act, saferchemicalshealthyfamilies, takeouttoxics, toxicchemicals, TSCA
EPA deserves credit for overcoming chemical industry opposition, and, at best, resistance from the White House, and improving the chemical reporting program under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Today, the agency released the first set of information under its...continued→
Posted February 11, 2013 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- flameretardants, Safe Chemicals Act, saferchemicalshealthyfamilies, takeouttoxics, TSCA
With the arrival of Chinese New Year, 2013 is shaping up to be another banner year when the chemical industry’s decades of deception and purchased power in Washington DC will come home to roost in the form of state-level regulation...continued→
Posted February 8, 2013 by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment
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- california, flameretardants, greenchemistry, tb117, toxicchemicals, toxics, TSCA
Usually draft regulations released on a Friday get little fanfare, but a new draft furniture flammability standard, TB 117-2013, released today is a really big deal that affects all of us. The revised furniture flammability standard fixes a nearly 40...continued→
Posted December 6, 2012 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- lead, perchlorate, takeouttoxics, toxicchemicals, TSCA
A new report by an expert panel of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences calls into greater question an effort by Senators to rush through regulatory exemptions for lead and other toxic chemicals. The bill is...continued→
Posted November 26, 2012 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, chemcials, congress, lead, perchlorate, takeouttoxics, TSCA
As the Senate prepares to vote on Senator Tester’s “Sportsmen’s Bill” this afternoon – and the issue had some coverage in today’s Washington Post -- I’ll take this opportunity to correct a few mistaken notions that have been offered about...continued→
Posted November 22, 2012 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- carcinogens, lead, perchlorate, takeouttoxics, toxicchemicals, TSCA
Like every American, I’m thankful to live in a country that has a reasonably well-functioning democracy – where we can vote for our President and representatives in Congress – where we are not subject to totalitarian or military rule. Recognizing...continued→
Posted November 13, 2012 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- lead, perchlorate, takeouttoxics, toxics, TSCA
When the Senate returns today for the start of its lame duck session, the first bill it is expected to take up is Senator John Tester’s “Sportsmen’s Act of 2012.” The bill S. 3525, is really a package of different...continued→
Posted November 8, 2012 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, carcinogens, takeouttoxics, toxicchemicals, TSCA
There are two major pillars that help the chemical industry wield power in Washington and in state capitols around the country. First, of course, is money. A recent report by Common Cause, “Toxic Spending: The Political Expenditures of the Chemical...continued→
Posted August 7, 2012 by Tiffany Traynum in Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- flame retardants, Safe Chemicals Act, takeouttoxics, toxics, TSCA
When I was a little girl I had a blanky. Really, it was a pillow that was likely as old as I was. It was my favorite thing — for more years than I care to admit — in the...continued→
