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Scott Pruitt

TSCA reform: The terrible twos edition

We recently marked two years since the enactment of the Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. The law, more commonly known as TSCA reform, was the much heralded and long-awaited bipartisan update of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a 1976 law that never really got off the ground as a public health […]

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, Scott Pruitt, TSCA reform

Three moms on a mission to ban the chemical that killed their sons

We have spent the past few days with three courageous moms, who have taken the unimaginable grief of losing their sons and turned it into tenacious advocacy. They’re working to get the deadly chemical their sons were all exposed to off store shelves and out of workplaces.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Cindy Wynne, Drew Wynne, Joshua Atkins, Kevin Hartley, Lauren Atkins, methylene chloride, N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), Scott Pruitt, Wendy Hartley

Scott Pruitt testifying

Congress to Scott Pruitt: What do you have to say to these families?

Representative Pallone and Representative Lowey stand up for victims of deadly paint strippers.

Filed Under: Mind the Store, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Congress, Drew Wynne, Frank Pallone, House Energy and Commerce Committee, House Interior Environment and Related Agencies Committee, Joshua Atkins, Lauren Atkins, Lowe's, methylene chloride, N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), Nita Lowey, paint stripper, Scott Pruitt

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