Resources
Responses to the March 2015 Vitter-Udall Bill
Letters
- American Sustainable Business Council and Investor Environmental Health Network Letter to Chairman Inhofe and Ranking Senate Member Boxer
- NGO and Business Letter to Senators Vitter and Boxer: 57 NGOs and Businesses Oppose Vitter-Udall Bill
- The Attorneys General of New York, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Oregon and Washington: Letter to Chairman Inhofe and Ranking Senate Member Boxer
- Center for Progressive Reform: Letter from Professors of Law
- Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families: Letter to Senators
Statements
- Safer Chemicals Healthy Families: Vitter-Udall Chemical Bill Draws Broad Opposition
- Center for Environmental Health: Senate Chemical Policy Proposal Represents a Step Backwards in Protecting Public Health
- Breast Cancer Fund: New Toxics Bill Would Allow the Chemical Industry to Continue to Endanger Public Health
Blogs
- Center for Effective Government: Reducing Our Exposure to Toxic Chemicals: Stronger State Health Protections at Risk in Efforts to Reform Federal Chemical Law
- Environmental Working Group: How State Chemical Safety Policy Shapes The Consumer Market
- Greenpeace: Spring Break for Polluters
- Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families: What Senators Aren’t Getting About State Chemical Policies
- Environmental Working Group: Environmental Defense Fund And Chemical Companies: Fool Me Twice?
- Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families: TSCA Hearing Roundup: Vitter-Udall Bill Needs Work
- Maplight: Chemical Industry Increases Contributions and Lobbying as Congress Takes up Chemical Bill
- Safer Chemicals Healthy Families: Weak Tea in a Chipped Cup - Why the New Vitter-Udall Legislation isn't Just "Not Good Enough." It's Not Good
- Safer States: Federal Reform Bill: Don't Call it Safety
- Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families: Fact Sheet: Udall-Vitter Bill (S.697) Would Seriously Weaken State Authority to Regulate Toxic Chemicals
Blogs by NGOs: How to reform chemical laws to protect health, communities
- Reforming chemicals means saving lives, Breast Cancer Fund
- Toxic Chemical Reform Is Long Overdue: Let’s Get It Right, Moms Rising
- Chemical Reform: Getting it done right, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families
- TSCA Reform: Let’s fix the problem, Physicians for Social Responsibility
- A Path Forward for Congress on Chemicals, Washington Toxics Coalition
- States to US Senators, Don’t tie our hands, Safer States
- Reforming TSCA, Progressive Principles for Toxic Risk Regulation, Center for Progressive Reform
- YOU Broke the Gridlock in Congress (Seriously!), Women’s Voices for the Earth
Business Resources for TSCA reform
- Poll of Small Businesses: Views on TSCA Reform
- Fact Sheet on Business and TSCA Reform
- American Sustainable Business Council Campaigns for Safer Chemicals: Companies for Safer Chemicals and No More Toxic Chemical Spills
- BizNGO Working Group: a unique collaboration of businesses and environmental groups working together for safer chemicals and sustainable materials.
Committee Hearings on TSCA Reform
- July 13, 2013: US Senate Committee Environment & Public Works; Full Committee hearing entitled, “Strengthening Public Health Protections by Addressing Toxic Chemical Threats.”
- March 12, 2014: US House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Hearing on Chemicals in Commerce Act
- April 29, 2014: Energy & Commerce Committee continues examination of Chemicals in Commerce Act
Congressional Testimony on TSCA Reform
- Jenn Sass, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Nancy Buermeyer, Breast Cancer Fund
Fact Sheets
- National Council of Churches statement on impact of toxic chemicals on communities of color.
- Principles of Environmental Justice
Our Health and TSCA Reform
- Health Care Without Harm issue page: Safer Chemicals
- Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families report: Chemicals and Our Health: Why Recent Science is a Call to Action
Statements Opposing House Chemicals in Commerce Act (R-Shimkus)
- American Sustainable Business Council
- Breast Cancer Fund
- Center for Environmental Health
- Companies for Safer Chemicals Coalition
- Environmental Justice and Health Alliance
- Environmental Working Group
- Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
- Safer States
- Letter to Congress from Center for Environmental Health
- Letter to Congress from Environmental Justice and Health Alliance
- Letter to Congres from Safer States
Statements Opposing Chemical Safety Improvement Act (R-Vitter; D-Lautenberg)
- Breast Cancer Fund
- Californians for a Green and Healthy Economy
- Center for Effective Government
- Environmental Working Group
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
States Oppose Efforts to Pre-Empt States Rights
- New York Attorney General Letter on TSCA reform to EPW Hearing
- Letter to Environment & Public Works on TSCA Reform: A Communication from the Chief Legal Officers of the Following States: CA · CT · DE · HI· MD · MA · OR · VT · WA
- National Caucus of Environmental Legislators
Concerns with Preemption Language in Chemical Safety Improvement Act, S.1009