Category Archives: Product Safety

“Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals”

A new ProPublica article reports that, “[f]rom a powerful chemical industry that helped write the toxic substances law to an underfunded EPA lacking in resolve, the flaws in the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deep.” When ProPublica published stories this fall cataloging new evidence that American chemical workers are being exposed to asbestos, readers reacted […]