Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

Bob Sussman

Protecting the safety net for new chemicals under TSCA

Few aspects of the new TSCA law have been at more risk than the section 5 premanufacture notice (PMN) program, which provides critical safeguards against unsafe new chemicals entering commerce. The amended law put considerably more teeth in this program, but from day one, the chemical industry has sought to block EPA from implementing the tougher review process that the law required.

EPA Senior Counsel Bob Sussman to Speak to Businesses, NGO’s about Transitioning to Safer Chemicals

Pending “Safe Chemicals Act” Prompts Downstream Users to Discuss Implications at Washington, DC Forum