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For Consumers, Communities, the Environment, and Business:
Safe Chemicals Now!

Green America, as a part of our coalitional work with the American Sustainable Business Council, urges our Green Business Network members to support the Safe Chemicals Act.

The Safe Chemicals Act, introduced by Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), provides an opportunity for the long overdue modernization of the main federal law that is supposed to ensure the safety of chemicals – and which has not changed in 34 years. The 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) —intended to give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the power to identify and regulate dangerous chemicals—simply does not work.

More than 80,000 different chemicals have been produced and used in the United States. EPA has required testing on just 200 of these. Only 5 chemicals have been restricted. EPA tried to use TSCA to restrict asbestos 19 years ago and failed. It has not tried since.

Comprehensive TSCA reform is good for business. It will increase consumer confidence, expand markets, create new jobs, and make U.S. businesses more competitive in the global marketplace. Designing new chemicals to be inherently safer from the outset reduces the costs of regulation, hazardous waste storage and disposal, worker protection, and future liabilities.

A growing number of business owners, executives, professionals and investors are adding their voice for the reform of TSCA. Please add yours.

Sign the Business Leaders letter for TSCA reform »

Learn more: The Business Case for Comprehensive TSCA Reform »

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Association for Enterprise Opportunity
Green America
B-Corporation
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
California Assoc. for Micro Enterprise Opportunity
New Voice of Business
Green Chamber of Commerce
Green Chamber of the South
Investors Circle
Responsible Wealth
Social Enterprise Alliance
Social Venture Network
Sustainable Business Association
Wealth for the Common Good

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"First and foremost, we support updating the Toxic Substances Control Act because it is vital for protecting the health of people and the planet. We also believe it will have important benefits for us as a downstream user of chemicals through greater information and innovation, and as a consumer products company through the restoration of consumer trust in our industry."
-- Jeffrey Hollender
Co-founder, Seventh Generation