EPA Offers Free Access to Chemicals Inventory
It’s about time!
The US Environmental Protection Agency put out the word yesterday (March 15) that people who want to see its public inventory of industrial chemicals will no longer have to shell out their own money to get it. It’s a small but meaningful step on a longer and contentious road to give...
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...
Secret Chemicals: File This Under, “You Gotta Be Kidding!”
But we’re not.
Here’s the story. When a chemical manufacturer finds out that one of its products “presents a substantial risk of injury to health or the environment,” the company is required under federal law to give that information immediately to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The...
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...
Top 10 Environmental Stories of the Decade — That You Might Have Missed
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Legislation, Pollution in People on 12 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment
EWG staffers put our heads together to come up with this list of bad news environmental stories over the last decade that people might have missed. But there were plenty of big stories that hardly anyone could have missed, such as climate change. What’s on your list of the biggest environmental...
Lautenberg Cites EWG Minority Cord Blood Report at Toxics Reform Hearing
Posted by Leeann Brown in EPA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, NIEHS, NTP, White House on 12 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment
At a hearing held before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and its Environmental Health panel on Wednesday, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health, cited Environmental Working Group’s minority cord blood...
Therapists Focus on Toxics and Kids
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in BPA, Environmental Health Science, Pollution in People on 11 13th, 2009 | 5 Comments
Here’s one measure of how much the issue of toxic contaminants’ effects on health and development — especially in children – has gained traction: A continuing education program aimed mostly at psychotherapists is devoting a day-long course to the subject this weekend in Boston.
It’s...
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...
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