{"id":5349,"date":"2016-06-13T09:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:01:51","slug":"resources-for-understanding-the-lautenberg-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2016\/06\/13\/resources-for-understanding-the-lautenberg-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for understanding the Lautenberg Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0<\/em>is a Lead Senior Scientist.<\/p>\n<p>With last Tuesday\u2019s passage by the Senate of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/2576\/text\">H.R. 2576<\/a>), a new TSCA is on its way to the President\u2019s desk to be signed into law.<\/p>\n<p>To assist everyone in understanding what the new law will do and how it compares to original TSCA, I have prepared two new documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Want to see how TSCA now reads as amended by the Lautenberg Act: Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2016\/06\/TSCA-as-amended-by-final-bill-6-22-16.pdf\">redline of TSCA based on the final bill<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2016\/06\/Side-by-side-oldTSCA-newTSCA-FINAL.pdf\">10-page side-by-side<\/a> of old vs. new TSCA, compared in 12 key issue areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here are links to our earlier analyses of the bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2016\/06\/Major-features-of-FRL21-6-7-16.pdf\">a description of<\/a>: \u00a0(a) how the Lautenberg Act amends the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 and (b)\u00a0changes made after House and Senate bill passage to reconcile the bills;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/11\/files\/2016\/05\/Preemption-under-FRL21-5-23-16-final.pdf\">a description of what is and is not preempted\u00a0<\/a>under the Lautenberg Act; and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/sites\/default\/files\/lautenberg_act_fact_sheet_09-06-2016.pdf\">Our fact sheet<\/a> on the Lautenberg Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0is a Lead Senior Scientist. With last Tuesday\u2019s passage by the Senate of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 2576), a new TSCA is on its way to the President\u2019s desk to be signed into law. To assist everyone in understanding what the new law will do &#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],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-tsca","tag-lautenberg-act"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","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=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}