{"id":4431,"date":"2015-06-29T16:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T21:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:01:44","slug":"comparing-the-senate-and-house-tsca-reform-legislation-a-side-by-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2015\/06\/29\/comparing-the-senate-and-house-tsca-reform-legislation-a-side-by-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing the Senate and House TSCA reform legislation:  A side-by-side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0<\/em>is a Lead Senior Scientist.<\/p>\n<p><em>[UPDATE 2-15-16: I have also posted an updated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2016\/02\/Side-by-side-TSCA-S.-697-H.R.2576-2-14-16c.pdf\">detailed side-by-side \u00a0comparison of the bills here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the House of Representatives passed the TSCA Modernization Act of 2015 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/2576\">H.R. 2576<\/a>), its bill to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).\u00a0 The Senate is poised to consider its own bill, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/senate-bill\/697\">S. 697<\/a>), within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>How would these bills address the key flaws in current TSCA?\u00a0 The chart below provides a 35,000-foot-level comparison of the two bills. \u00a0It&#8217;s also available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/TSCA-Lautenberg-Act-House-bill-6-29-15.pdf\">PDF here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/Side-by-side-page-1-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4446\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/Side-by-side-page-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"Side-by-side page 1-4\" width=\"812\" height=\"1810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/Side-by-side-page-1-4.jpg 812w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/Side-by-side-page-1-4-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/Side-by-side-page-1-4-459x1024.jpg 459w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/Side-by-side-page-1-4-768x1712.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/Side-by-side-page-1-4-689x1536.jpg 689w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/06\/Side-by-side-page-1-4-9x20.jpg 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0is a Lead Senior Scientist. [UPDATE 2-15-16: I have also posted an updated\u00a0detailed side-by-side \u00a0comparison of the bills here.] Last week, the House of Representatives passed the TSCA Modernization Act of 2015 (H.R. 2576), its bill to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).\u00a0 The Senate is poised to consider its own bill, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,114108],"tags":[56107,56109],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-tsca","tag-lautenberg-act","tag-tsca-modernization-act"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12743,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/12743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}