Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.
Sara Goodman of Greenwire/E&E News had a great piece picked up by the New York Times yesterday about state governments pressing for meaningful TSCA reform. I blogged earlier about the states’ reform principles, quoting Ted Sturdevant, Director of the Washington State Department of Ecology, urging that “[w]e need a federal law that prevents contamination from happening in the first place, and phases out the harmful chemicals that are already in widespread use.”
Goodman’s piece yesterday focused more on the need for fundamental reform of confidential business information (CBI) claim allowances under TSCA. Recall that, under TSCA, state governments as well as the public are denied access to any CBI EPA receives. Judging by their quotes in Goodman’s piece, they’re not happy about it: Read More