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Senate Chemical Bill Passes with “Major Problems”

“Though improved, the legislation still has major problems,” said Andy Igrejas, Director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a 450 member coalition dedicated to TSCA reform.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Congress, EPA, legislation, Senate, toys, TSCA, low priority, S.697, imported products

New study finds PCBs in the color yellow

A new study from Rutgers University found that PCBs, a notoriously toxic chemical, banned in the 1970s, are ending up in the color yellow, used for clothing and paint. Researcher Lisa Rodunberg from Rutgers University wrote about “TSCA’s dirty loophole” on our blog, where she described how PCB’s were ending up in paints and dyes […]

Filed Under: Mind the Store, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: action, cancer, chemicals, children, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, health, mind the store, PCBs, phthalates, policy, products, retailers, safer products, toxic, toys, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store, yellow

New study finds regulations reduce levels of chemicals in our bodies

It was back in 2008 when I was sitting in a cafĂ©, not to far from the Minnesota state capitol that I heard about the veto. Governor Tim Pawlenty had just vetoed two bills our coalition hard worked hard to garner bi-partisan support for. One of the bills he vetoed was a ban on certain […]

Filed Under: Health Science, Mind the Store, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: action, Andy Igrejas, cancer, chemicals, children's products, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, family, health, health effects, kids, laws, Minnesota, phthalates, policy, products, protection, retailers, Tim Pawlenty, toxic, toxic chemicals, Toxic Law, toxic treadmill, toys, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

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