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Daniel Rosenberg

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.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Bob Sussman, Daniel Rosenberg, PMN, SNUR, TSCA

Groups call on EPA’s Beck to sit out chemical rulemaking

Today, five environmental health groups called on the EPA Office of General Counsel to require Dr. Nancy Beck, Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, to recuse herself from ongoing rulemaking on proposed bans of unsafe uses of three dangerous toxic chemicals.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: American Chemistry Council, Daniel Rosenberg, earthjustice, Environmental Health Strategy Center, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, EPA Administrator, Eve Gartner, Liz Hitchcock, Nancy Beck, NRDC, Patrick MacRoy, Scott Pruitt

Congressional Hearing to Focus on How to Protect the Public from Toxic Chemicals

Congressional hearing will examine how the EPA should begin the task of reviewing tens of thousands of chemicals in widespread use

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, beth bosley, bill greggs, BPA, CDC, center for international environmental law, Daniel Rosenberg, daryl ditz, edf, EPA, erectile dysfunction, eric sampson, hazardous chemicals, house subcommittee on commerce, mercury, NRDC, phthalates, pregnancy, richard denison, safer chemicals, SCHF, society of chemical manufacturers and affiliates, Steve Owens, toxic chemicals, toxics, TSCA, TSCA reform, womens health

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