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It’s Time for EPA to Regulate Chemicals by Class

Union of Concerned Scientists

Understanding the Toxic Substances Control Act To understand how grouping chemicals might work in regulations, let’s talk about the Toxic Substance Control Act , or TSCA, the primary law safeguarding the public from exposures to non-pesticide chemicals.

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GAO Asks Whether Chemical Recycling Can Reduce Plastic Pollution

Brag

Chemical recycling can produce high-quality raw materials, decreasing the demand for fossil fuels and other natural resources. Furthermore, making a polymer by depolymerizing plastic is, according to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) nomenclature rules, different than the virgin polymer.

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EPA Draft FY 2022-2026 Strategic Plan Includes Ambitious Goals To Ensure Safety Of Chemicals For People And The Environment

Brag

Objective 7.2, “Promote Pollution Prevention,” is intended to encourage the adoption of pollution prevention and other stewardship practices that conserve natural resources, mitigate climate change, and promote environmental sustainability.

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EPA Draft FY 2022-2026 Strategic Plan Includes Ambitious Goals to Ensure Safety of Chemicals for People and the Environment

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Objective 7.2, “Promote Pollution Prevention,” is intended to encourage the adoption of pollution prevention and other stewardship practices that conserve natural resources, mitigate climate change, and promote environmental sustainability.

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Chemical Used to Make Teflon is Causing a Sticky Situation in West Virginia and Ohio

Vermont Law

The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 empowers EPA to study health impacts of chemicals and regulate its use but EPA has little authority to prevent use of chemicals before it is shown to be safe. She is currently interning for the Vermont Natural Resources Board. As of 2014, EPA found C8 in. in Biology.

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Senate Confirms Michal Freedhoff as EPA Assistant Administrator for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention

Brag

Freedhoff also served on the staffs of the House Science Committee, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the House Natural Resources Committee.

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An Effective Strategy on Climate Change Requires State Action

Acoel

the Departments of Interior and Energy). But the federal government needs help, and I believe we should look to the states to provide such assistance.