FEARING TSCA PUSH, INDUSTRY STEPS UP BATTLE OVER STATE TOXICS LAWS

摘要

Chemical industry leaders are urging company officials to gear up for a major battle with environmentalists over state toxics legislation, warning that activists' strategy is aimed at creating a patchwork of state restrictions as a way to force industry to agree to federal reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The environmentalists' "goal is to create a patchwork of regulations in states until we would come together and coalesce around TSCA reform," Roger Bernstein, managing director of American Chemistry Council's (ACC) state policy section told the annual GlobalChem industry conference here March 19.