Doing the Right Thing
It’s not news that getting anything substantive through Congress these days is like pushing very big rocks uphill, even when there is remarkable consensus on the topic.
That’s why a broad array of organizations that care about people’s health came together this week to thank Administrator Lisa...
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 01 13th, 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...
EPA Chief’s Call for Toxics Reform: Three Times in Two Months
Posted by Alex Formuzis in Featured Articles on 11 11th, 2009 | 2 Comments
The topic of human exposures to chemical contaminants and the need to overhaul the federal government’s approach to toxics regulation was again on the mind of the nation’s top environmental official in remarks she made last weekend in Philadelphia.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has now delivered...
A Historic Conference: The Future of U.S. Chemicals Policy
Posted by Colleen Hutchings in Tracking Kid Safe on 10 15th, 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the environmental community voiced a broad consensus this week that the time has come for comprehensive reform of the outdated federal law created to ensure that Americans’ health is not threatened by the thousands of chemicals they...
EWG Conference Finds Broad Consensus on Toxic Chemicals Reform
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in Featured Articles on 10 8th, 2009 | 2 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the environmental community voiced a broad consensus this week that the time has come for comprehensive reform of the outdated federal law created to ensure that Americans’ health is not threatened by the thousands of chemicals they...
Key stakeholders share ideas about TSCA reform
Posted by Lisa Frack, EWG in Legislation on 10 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment
The morning session of today’s historic conference exploring routes to federal chemical policy reform made clear that there is now a strong consensus among key stakeholders – industry, the EPA and the White House, the environmental health community – on the need to reform the Toxic Substances...
Beginning of the (long overdue) end for federal toxics program?
Posted by Alex Formuzis in EPA on 10 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
What happened this week in San Francisco was nothing less than historic.
Lisa Jackson, EPA’s chief and the president’s point-person on environmental policy, began something that should have happened 33 years ago: drive a stake into the heart of the horrendous federal chemicals regulatory program...
A Landmark Conversation: The Future of U.S. Chemicals Policy
Posted by Lisa Frack, EWG in Featured Articles on 10 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments
Under the outdated and toothless federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), chemicals can go on the U.S. market with little or no safety testing, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has only limited power to protect public health. One result, studies have shown, is that babies are born with...
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