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Responding to Joe Nocera’s Column

The Value of Knowing and Caring about What’s Actually in Legislation

 

It looks as though the Senate is likely to vote on TSCA reform this week and the propaganda machine is in full swing. Yesterday, I took a call from New York Times columnist Joe Nocera, thinking he was writing about the legislation and what the issues were. I didn’t realize he was actually writing a column about us, instigated, as he admits, by his “old friend” at the Environmental Defense Fund’s affiliate. The column is flat wrong, but it also provides an opportunity to talk about where we are and what’s at stake.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: boxer, chemical bill, conference, Dominiqie Browning, Durbin, edf, Environmental Defense Fund, EPA, Frank Pallone, Fred Krupp, House, inhofe, legislation, markey, McConnell, New York Times, Nocera, propaganda, public health, Senate, Shimkus, special interest, state preemption, TSCA reform, Udall, Vitter

Do these chemicals make me look fat?

Originally published by Environmental Defense Fund, January 19, 2011. by Jennifer McPartland, Ph.D., Health Scientist. My colleague Richard Denison at EDF ended his last blog post asking, "The new study [Environmental Chemicals in Pregnant Women in the US: NHANES 2003-2004] leaves me with one question:  How many more such wake-up calls do we need before […]

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: bisphenol A, edf, everyday products, jennifer mcpartland, NIEHS, obesity, persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, phthalates, toxic chemicals

House Panel Tackles Chemical Legislation

Testimony from doctors, scientists, business and community leaders outline the need for TSCA reform.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, connecticut coalition for environmental justice, Construction Specialties, edf, hazardous chemicals, House Energy and Commerce Committee, howard williams, Mark Mitchell, richard denison, safer chemicals, toxic chemical reform, toxic chemicals, toxic chemicals safety act, toxics, TSCA, TSCA reform

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