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Public Health vs. Industry Debate Takes Center Stage in Pending Bill to Overhaul Toxic Substances Control Act

Originally published in The Huffington Post. By Andy Igrejas, Director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a coalition of 250 environmental and public health organizations working to overhaul our federal chemicals policy. www.saferchemicals.org This week the American Chemical Society is holding a meeting on Green Chemistry— a subject that holds much promise for the future. Chemicals […]

Lindsay Dahl, Deputy Campaign Director It’s hard to pronounce, and even harder to find on a product label, yet the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) has become a household word. BPA comes up in casual conversation: Have you switched out your water bottles yet? Do I really have to live without canned green beans? So how […]

by Anna Davis Field Organizer, Washintgon Toxics Coalition I was tired, my fiancé was overwhelmed, and we both regretted that we had just spent a sunny spring day indoors. We had just returned from a marathon wedding registry session at one of those big box stores that carries anything you could ever possibly want and […]

By Erika Schreder, Staff Scientist, Washington Toxics Coalition Nine out of ten. According to a study released today, those are your chances of having some bisphenol A (BPA) with tonight’s dinner, if canned food is on your menu. New testing for BPA sampled 50 cans of food and drinks, and found that the hormone-disrupting chemical […]

Urgent Need to Update Toxic Substances Control Act Greater Than Ever Before

Today the President's Cancer Panel issued a ground-breaking report to President Obama focusing on the role of the environment in cancer.

Pending “Safe Chemicals Act” Needs More Public Health Protections to Reduce Carcinogens in Products, Communities

If you’ve been following our campaign — or the debate over chemical policy — you know that we reached a milestone on April 15, when both the U.S. House and Senate unveiled strong legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). As the House is planning action on the legislation very soon, I thought […]