"laws intended to regulate polluters are now written by the polluters themselves" (quote)

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Battle Lines Are Drawn in One of the Biggest Fights Against Toxic Chemicals in Decades Quote: "We’re apparently at the point in the minds of some people in the Congress that laws intended to regulate polluters are now written by the polluters themselves"
The laws governing the tens of thousands of chemicals that saturate the marketplace are being reformed. But will it make any difference? (Alternet - overview article)


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Comparing the Senate and House TSCA reform legislation: A side-by-side
By RICHARD DENISON | BIO | Published: JUNE 29, 2015
Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Lead Senior Scientist. ( Environmental Defense Fund)

[UPDATE 2-15-16: updated Feb 2016 detailed side-by-side comparison of the bills here.]

http://blogs.edf.org/health/files/2016/02/Side-by-side-TSCA-S.-697-H.R.2576-2-14-16c.pdf

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Environ Health Perspect. 2009 Aug;117(8):1202-9. doi: 10.1289/ehp.0800404. Epub 2009 Feb 9.
Toward a new U.S. chemicals policy: rebuilding the foundation to advance new science, green chemistry, and environmental health.
Wilson MP1, Schwarzman MR.

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/117/8/ehp.0800404.pdf

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US States' ability to protect from toxic chemicals under attack on two fronts, both home and abroad

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Least Common Denominator Report Global attack by chemical industries on rights of countries, states and municipalities on rights to regulate wants to lower chemical standards to lowest common denominator, end use of precautionary principle

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European Parliament Takes a Stand to Protect REACH ...

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EPA's New Chemicals Program: TSCA dealt EPA a very poor hand

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Estimating Burden and Disease Costs of Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the European Union (Cost in EU which has more stringent regulations than the US and more access to curative health care so more data, has costs exceeding 150 Billion Euros a year from EDCs, conservatively estimated.