Earthjustice: Protect Our Chemical Safety Laws

Earthjustice: Protect Our Chemical Safety Laws

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is the country’s main chemical safety law. It requires the EPA to evaluate chemicals’ risks to public health and the environment. If the EPA finds that a chemical poses an “unreasonable risk,” the EPA must protect against that risk by regulating the chemical’s production, use, distribution, or disposal. But now, Trump’s EPA has proposed to drastically rewrite our chemical safety rules in ways that would let it ignore the true dangers of toxic chemicals in our everyday products. There is an official public comment period open until November 7, and we need to mobilize as much opposition to this new Trump proposal as possible. Speak up HERE.

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