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Jim Vallette

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Connecting the dots between plastic, mercury, asbestos and PFAS: A new report confirms PVC’s toxic lifecycle

Plastics production imperils life on earth in many ways, from the pursuit of fossil fuels to the pollution of the oceans. All petrochemical plastics exact some toll in their manufacture. But there is one type of plastic that is particularly harmful: polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as vinyl or PVC. A new catalog of the world’s […]

Filed Under: Find Safer Products, Mind the Store, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: asbestos, chlorine, Jim Vallette, mercury, PFAS, PVC

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New Research Shows Increased Imports Of Dangerous Chemicals

Today, three public health groups asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to protect the health of all Americans and the environment from ten highly toxic chemicals that they concluded pose an unreasonable risk to human health and the environment. These are the first ten chemicals to be evaluated under the recently strengthened federal chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: 1-bromopropane, asbestos, carbon tetrachloride, Environmental Health Strategy Center, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, Healthy Building Network, hexabromocyclododecane, Jim Vallette, Liz Hitchcock, methylene chloride, Mike Belliveau, N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), risk evaluations, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

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