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Why No Specifics?
You can scour the CCS website in great detail and while you will find the information you need about the latest in the pursuit of TSCA reform, you won’t find arguments about specific chemicals. Raging today are debates over the future of a number of chemicals. Some state legislatures are considering bans of specific chemical products and activists on both sides are spending gobs of dollars assailing or defending them.
We’re not going there.
It is our view that TSCA reform done right will address those product specific concerns. A law that properly prioritizes chemicals that concern the general public, scientists and the regulatory community and then sets out the proper protocol for testing them to see if they are safe to use as intended with an EPA that has the resources and authority to act gets to every chemical that is now a hot button public policy issue.
We do have members with strong opinions about specific chemicals and we respect those opinions. However, CCS is going to focus its advocacy on the quest for comprehensive reform.
There’s a practical political point to this. Becoming mired in product specific fights draws down resources that could be better spent on what the country really needs – a better law that governs all chemicals and not just one.
February 16, 2010 at 9:09 am | TSCA Modernization, TSCA Reform | No comment You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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