New 'Sustainable' Business Alliance Weighs Joining TSCA Reform Talks

摘要

A group of companies favoring use of safer alternatives to harmful substances has launched a new coalition aimed at pressing lawmakers to adopt stricter approaches for regulating industrial chemicals than the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and other industry groups that have been lobbying to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). A source with the group, Companies for Safer Chemicals (CSC), says its members will assess whether they should join talks aimed at amending the Senate bill, S. 1009, in a way that would still satisfy their reform principles - which largely align with environmentalist and Democratic priorities on the bill. A key goal of the coalition is to "match up our principles on TSCA reform with [S. 1009]," says David Levine, president of the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), one of the groups that created the coalition. "Is there an opportunity to rework" the bill in a wav that aliens with our principles, he said.