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Andy Igrejas

With new settlements, EPA may finally protect Americans from asbestos

Last month, partners in asbestos litigation reached settlements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in two cases that will have far-reaching impacts on the way the EPA regulates asbestos.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: American Public Health Association, Andy Igrejas, asbestos, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Toxic Substances Control Act, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, success

TSCA reform: The terrible twos edition

We recently marked two years since the enactment of the Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. The law, more commonly known as TSCA reform, was the much heralded and long-awaited bipartisan update of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a 1976 law that never really got off the ground as a public health […]

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, TSCA reform, Scott Pruitt

Andy Igrejas

Tribute to Andy Igrejas, environmental health hero

We lost a dear friend, colleague, and extraordinary public health champion this past weekend. Andy Igrejas was all of the above and more, and we’ll miss him greatly. Over these last dozen years, he founded Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families and led us in an ambitious marathon of a national campaign that resulted in the first major update to our broken chemical safety law, the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), in forty years.

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