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A Banner Week for Toxic Chemical Reform

Our campaign saw lots of action last week – all of it bolstering our conviction that Congress will act to reduce toxic chemicals in our lives this year.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: biomonitoring study, Can toxic chemicals change how we think and who we are, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chemicals and human health, Disrupted, Environmental Health Fund, Environmental Protection Agency, healthy child, Healthy World, Judy Robinson, Lead contributes to ADHD, Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative, Mind, Senator Frank Lautenberg, senators, The chemical industry, toxic chemicals, Tracey J. Woodruff, TSCA reform, U.S. Senate held hearings on Thursday February 4, Wake-Up Story

Toxic Chemical DecaBDE: EPA Says Phase It Out, Environmental Health Advocates Applaud and Ask for More Protection

EPA to phase out toxic chemical decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE), a brominated flame retardant that has been in the crosshairs of a coalition of states, scientists and public health professionals for nearly a decade

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: American Sustainable Business Council, arlene blum, brominated flame retardant, CDC, charity carbine, connecticut coalition for environmental justice, david levine, DBDPE, DecaBDE, Environmental Health Fund, EPA, flame retardant, george lundgren, green science policy institute, hazardous chemicals, kathy curtis, Mark Mitchell, PBDE, safer chemicals, Science and Environmental Health Network, Ted Schettler, toxic chemicals, toxics, TSCA, TSCA reform, vermont public interest research group

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