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Strong Message to Lawmakers on Chemical Policy Reform

Monday, June 17, 2013

Why would 34 lawyers and law professors, 24 national non-profit organizations and 13 California-based groups all write Congress to oppose something called the Chemical Safety Improvement Act?

“Chemical safety improvement” sounds like a good thing, right? But when you look under the hood, it turns out to be a clunker.

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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chemical Policy

Five steps backward with the chemical lobby bill

Thursday, June 13, 2013

The industry-backed Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013 could be worse for the public than the law now on the books — the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.

The Toxic Substances Control Act is the last and weakest of the environmental laws enacted in the early 1970s. A fractious Congress under intense pressure from chemical interests patched it together and sent it to a demoralized White House in the waning days of the lame-duck Ford administration. It has never been amended, and it has resulted in very little protection of public health.

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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chemical Policy

Direct Payments Not Dead Yet – For Cotton Farmers like Fincher

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The bill Rep. Fincher voted to support as a member of the House Agriculture Committee does indeed end direct payments – except for cotton farmers like… Fincher. 

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Key Issues: 
Farming
Food

Six Reasons Why Fiscal Conservatives (and Every American) Should Hate the House Farm Bill

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

 

The budget-busting farm bill headed to the House floor next week is bad news for taxpayers. Here’s why this bill, officially H.R. 1947, shouldn’t pass. 

In addition to including, in the words of the Speaker, a "Soviet-style" dairy program, this bill would:

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Key Issues: 
Farming
Food

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Income Support Proposal in House Farm Bill is Far More Generous Than Current Law

Friday, June 14, 2013
A new price guarantee program in the House farm bill could cost nearly $20 billion more than the discredited programs it is designed to replace, a new analysis shows .
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Key Issues: 
Farming
Food

EWG Establishes Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Technology and Digital Mobilization

Friday, June 14, 2013
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Environmental Working Group, the nation’s leading environmental health research and advocacy organization, has established its own “genius” award to honor Chris Campbell, EWG Vice President of Technology, for his two decades of contributions to the public good.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Consumer Products
Farming
Food

California Official Says Senate Chemical Safety Bill Would ‘Cripple’ State’s Toxics Controls

Wednesday, June 12, 2013
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has warned Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, that the Chemical Safety Improvement Act introduced in the Senate May 22 would undermine a California law aimed at protecting the public from toxic chemicals in consumer products.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chemical Policy

Wave of Opposition to Senate Chemicals Bill Swells from Public Interest Groups, Legal Scholars

Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Dozens of public interest organizations and legal scholars today sent letters to Congressional leaders expressing their unified opposition to the industry-backed Chemical Safety Improvement Act introduced last month by a bipartisan group of senators.
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Key Issues: 
Toxics
Chemical Policy