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05-20-2016, 02:41 PM
House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a plan to update a 40-year-old law regulating the safety of chemicals.
The bipartisan legislation would update the Toxic Substances Control Act, which became law in 1976. The original act gave the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to require testing and reporting of potentially harmful chemicals.
But as NPR's Jon Hamilton reports, the law didn't apply to most chemicals already on the market:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/20/478843876/lawmakers-agree-on-deal-to-expand-regulation-of-toxic-chemicals
The bipartisan legislation would update the Toxic Substances Control Act, which became law in 1976. The original act gave the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to require testing and reporting of potentially harmful chemicals.
But as NPR's Jon Hamilton reports, the law didn't apply to most chemicals already on the market:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/20/478843876/lawmakers-agree-on-deal-to-expand-regulation-of-toxic-chemicals