{"id":4730,"date":"2015-12-22T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:01:47","slug":"links-to-essential-reading-on-senate-and-house-tsca-reform-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2015\/12\/22\/links-to-essential-reading-on-senate-and-house-tsca-reform-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Links to essential reading on Senate and House TSCA reform legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0<\/em>is a Lead Senior Scientist<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[UPDATE 2\/26\/16: \u00a0Updated versions of (1) our detailed side-by-side comparison of Senate and House bills &#8212; <strong>now with bill section references<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; and (2) our 5-part series\u00a0have been posted below.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On December 17, 2015, the full Senate passed the <em>Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/senate-bill\/697\">S. 697<\/a>, the <em>Lautenberg Act<\/em>), which would amend the nearly 40-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives already passed its TSCA reform bill in June, the\u00a0<em>TSCA Modernization Act of 2015<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/2576\">H.R. 2576<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next up in the New Year will be efforts to reconcile these two bills.\u00a0 In anticipation of this, I am posting here updated analyses of the two bills that examine how and to what extent they\u00a0would address key flaws in TSCA. \u00a0These analyses include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>brief and detailed side-by-sides of TSCA and the two bills,<\/li>\n<li>a comparison of how the bills deal with the contentious issue of preemption of state authority,<\/li>\n<li>a comparison of how well the bills meet the Administration\u2019s principles for TSCA reform, and<\/li>\n<li>an earlier blog post on the importance of understanding which chemicals are in use today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these materials (including this post) are available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/\">blogs.edf.org\/health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ANALYSES:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>UPDATED 2\/26\/16: \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2016\/02\/Update-of-TSCA-reform-legislation-5-part-series-2-26-16.pdf\">How would Senate and House TSCA reform legislation address key flaws in TSCA?<\/a><em> \u00a0Update of our 5-part series on less talked-about but critically important elements of TSCA reform:<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Enhancing testing authority<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>EPA review of new chemicals<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How chemicals are selected for safety evaluations<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Confidential business information<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Consideration of costs and other non-risk factors<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/12\/TSCA-Lautenberg-House-bill-2-pager-12-21-15.pdf\">Comparing the Senate and House TSCA reform legislation: A side-by-side<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>UPDATED 2\/26\/16 with bill section references: \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2016\/02\/Side-by-side-TSCA-S.-697-H.R.2576-2-26-16.pdf\">And now the gory details: A deep-dive comparison of the Senate and House TSCA reform legislation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/12\/Understanding-Preemption-in-the-Lautenberg-Act-12-21-15c.pdf\">Understanding preemption in the Lautenberg Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/12\/Comparing-Preemption-in-House-and-Senate-bills-12-21-15c.pdf\">A mixed bag: Comparing the preemption provisions of the Senate and House TSCA reform bills<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2015\/12\/Senate-House-bills-v-Admin-principles-12-21-15.pdf\">How the Senate and House TSCA reform bills stack up against the Administration\u2019s Principles for TSCA Reform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2015\/07\/13\/we-dont-know-how-many-chemicals-are-in-use-today-we-should-know\/\">We don\u2019t know how many chemicals are in use today. 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