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If it’s polluting people, stop it
Would you take an airline that screened baggage for high explosives?
Sure.
But what if the airline stopped there and didn’t check for firearms, knives, grenades, combustible liquids, ignition devices, caustics and other dangerous devices? You’d find another way to get there, fast, and you’d...
CNN’s Gupta focuses on Kid-Safe Chemicals Act
Posted by Elaine Shannon in EPA, Featured Articles, Legislation, Senate status, Tracking Kid Safe on February 26, 2010 | 6 Comments
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta reported this week that Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, intends to reintroduce the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act as the major vehicle for toxic chemicals policy reform “within the next month or so.”
In a segment called Chemicals, innocent or guilty, Gupta, a physician and CNN’s...
US Senate Investigates Chemicals in People
From bisphenol A (BPA) to flame retardants and beyond, industrial chemicals that have troubling connections to a host of human health problems and are widely used in consumer products came under tough scrutiny before a U.S. Senate hearing this week (Feb. 4).
New Jersey Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D) called...
EPA Moves on “Chemicals of Concern”
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Government (In)Action, Know Your Toxins, Legislation, Tracking Kid Safe on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
It’s good to see the issue of reforming toxic chemicals regulation getting widespread coverage in a variety of media. Just this week (Jan. 11), Scientific American magazine published on its website a good account by author Lizzie Grossman of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) year-end decision...
Protecting Maine’s Children from Toxics: Get It Right
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in Featured Articles, Legislation, Pollution in People, Tracking Kid Safe on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
In 2008, the state of Maine took a big step toward protecting its children from exposures to potentially dangerous chemicals when its legislators passed the pioneering Toxic Chemicals in Children’s Products Act. Now officials of the Pine Tree State are writing regulations to implement that law, and...
A Historic Conference: The Future of U.S. Chemicals Policy
Posted by Colleen Hutchings in Tracking Kid Safe on October 15, 2009 | 12 Comments
More than 150 representatives of industry, government, academia and the environmental community voiced a broad consensus this week that the time has come for comprehensive reform of the outdated federal law created to ensure that Americans’ health is not threatened by the thousands of chemicals they...
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