Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

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What Senators Aren’t Getting About State Chemical Policies

Action Taken in Minnesota Benefits People in New Mexico

The choice presented by the bill is a false one. The pace of EPA chemical reviews under the bill is very modest, arguably more modest than the recent pace of state action. The first does not require the cancellation of the second. The solution to the problem is fairly simple: amend the bill so that no state is blocked from acting until and unless EPA has taken its own action to restrict a toxic chemical.

NYT Editorial, State AGs say Udall-Vitter chemical bill has flaws

States have been where most of the action to protect people from toxic chemicals has happened in recent years. So the the Udall-Vitter bill is rightly drawing fire for limiting the ability of states to act in several ways.

Weak Tea in a Chipped Cup

The new Vitter-Udall legislation isn’t just “not good enough.” It’s not good.