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Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families and allies sue Trump EPA over new toxics rules

WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families filed petitions asking a federal court to review two rules recently finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement the 2016 Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act. The petitions challenge final rules on how EPA will prioritize chemicals for safety review and evaluate the risks of those chemicals. 

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act, linda reinstein, Paul Burns, Trump administration, vermont public interest research group

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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