Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
In this case, the Fifth Circuit overturned a ban on asbestos and in the process made an entire federal statute, the Toxic Substances Control Act, virtually inoperative. What was so notable about this case was that the court applied the doctrine to limit water rights, which are generally sacrosanct in Western states.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.
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Nanotech
JANUARY 23, 2025
Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released a report entitled New Chemicals Program: EPA Needs a Systematic Process to Better Manage and Assess Performance on January 22, 2025. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) implementation of its Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) New Chemicals Program.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2023
This is not just conjecture; this situation happened before with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in the 1970s and 1980s—highly toxic chemicals that were banned by the EPA in 1979. Dow’s argument was that the ban did not apply because what they were manufacturing could not be defined as PCBs (even though they were).
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
It galvanized the environmental movement and it pushed the federal government and Congress to carry out scientific research on pesticide contamination and to act on that research. Carson also explicitly called out the hypocrisy inherent in government agencies at the time.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades. The San Francisco and Colorado researchers found internal DuPont documents from 1961 to 1994 showing toxicity in animal and occupational studies that were never reported to the EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Government Accountability Office report in September found that one-in-five water systems across six states had unsafe levels of PFOA and PFOS. But efforts to add new pollutants to the list haven’t kept pace with our growing understanding of the risks from substances that weren’t on regulators’ radar 50 years ago, including PFAS.
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