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3. No, right wing - see below

http://www.ciel.org/news/ttip-leak-eu-proposal-undermines-democratic-values/

http://www.ciel.org/project-update/trans-atlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip/


Press Releases

TTIP Poised to Gut US States’ Ability to Protect on Toxic Chemicals (September 2015)

European Parliament’s TTIP Vote A Step Backward for Public Health (July 2015)

CIEL President & CEO Carroll Muffett responds to Fast Track vote in US House of Representatives (June 2015)

Statement by CIEL President & CEO Carroll Muffett on the Blocked “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority Bill (May 2015)

TTIP leak: EU proposal undermines democratic values (April 2015)

Lowest Common Denominator: EU-US trade deal threatens to lower standards of protection from toxic pesticides (January 2015)

CIEL Statement on release of TTIP chemicals documents by European Commission (November 2014)

Leaked TTIP draft for chemicals sector reveals a toxic partnership (October 2014)

TTIP crosses the line on toxic chemicals for 111 NGOs (July 2014)

Proposed Plans for US/EU Trade Deal Would Weaken Health, Consumer, Worker, Environmental Protections (May 2014)

Chemical industry secretly manipulating US-EU trade negotiations (March 2014)


Fact Sheets

“T” for Toxic? Seven things everyone should know about the EU-US trade negotiations (aka “TTIP” or TAFTA”) and chemical regulation (February 2014):

US Version
EU Version – English
EU Version – Francais
EU Version – Espanol
EU Version – Portugues


Related Blogs & Editorials

US States’ ability to protect from toxic chemicals under attack on two fronts (October 2015)

European Parliament Takes a Stand to Protect REACH (September 2015)

Crying Wolf on Chemical Reform (March 2015)

Lowest Common Denominator (January 2015)

Where’s your seat at the table? (January 2015)

EU holds public consultations on TTIP investment chapter (May 2014)

TTIP means trading away better regulation (March 2014)

Chemical Lobby proposes to reinvent and duplicate OECD Chemicals Program (March 2014)

Setting the record straight on TTIP? Yes, let’s. (March 2014)

The truth about the EU’s proposal on regulatory coherence (December
2013)

The Trans-Atlantic Regulatory Agreement (December 2013)

Fracking Dispute Under NAFTA Highlights Potential Pitfalls of EU-US Trade Agreement (October 2013)


Sign-On Letters

Letter to Mr.Bernd Lange, Member of the European Parliament, over concerns that TTIP could weaken current public health and environment standards for toxic chemicals and impede the development of new standards (May 2015)
Letter by 111 Organizations demanding exclusion of chemicals from TTIP negotiations (July 2014)
Civil society organizations express concerns over proposals for “regulatory cooperation” between the United States and European Union under the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (May 2014)
Opposition to the inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement in the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (December 2013)



Testimony

Comments submitted on behalf of ClientEarth, CHEMTrust, Friends of the Earth US, NRDC, Sierra Club and CIEL on the scope of United States Trade Representative’s environmental review of TTIP regarding chemicals and regulatory coherence (September 2014)
Proposed Plans for US/EU Trade Deal Would Weaken Health, Consumer, Worker, Environmental Protections (May 2014)
CIEL Statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, hearing on the “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Achieving the Potential” (October 2013)
CIEL to Testify Before US House Committee on Energy & Commerce on Health and Environmental Risks of US-EU Free Trade Agreement (July 2013)
Statement and oral testimony of Carroll Muffett, President and CEO, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), as delivered to the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommitee on Manufacturing Commerce and Trade (July 2013)






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Preempting the Public Interest: How TTIP will Limit US States’ Public Health and Environmental Protections (Sep 2015)
Lowest Common Denominator: How the proposed US-EU trade deal threatens to lower standards of protection from toxic pesticides (January 2015)
Toxic Partnership Revealed (CIEL/Climate Earth/NRDC) (October 2014)
Toward a Toxic Partnership: A critique of the EU position on chemicals under the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement with the US (ClientEarth & CIEL) (July 2014)
Statement of Carroll Muffett, CIEL President & CEO, “The US-EU Free Trade Agreement: Tipping over the Regulatory Barriers”, as delivered to the US House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommitee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade (May 2014)
Toxic Partnership: A critique of the ACC-CEFIC proposal for trans-Atlantic cooperation on chemicals (CIEL/Client Earth) (March 2014)
“T” for Toxic? Seven things everyone should know about the EU-US trade neotiations (aka “TTIP” or TAFTA”) and chemical regulation [US Version] (Tuncak) (February 2014)
Statement by CIEL President and CEO, on behalf of CIEL, Friends of the Earth & Sierra Club, to US House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee (July 24, 2013)
Statement and oral testimony of Carroll Muffett, CIEL President and CEO, as delivered to US House Energy & Commerce Committee Subcommitee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade (July 2013)
Oral comments at public hearing on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (May 29, 2013)
“Normal Operations of a Ship” under MARPOL (Orellana) (June 2012)

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