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"With the passage of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act on June 22, 2016, the main body of chemical management law in the United States changed dramatically. This guide summarizes the new law, highlights the changes that will have the greatest impact, and offers pertinent analysis on the implementation of the new law."--
Legislative hearing on the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (S. 697) : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, March 18, 2015.
In summer 2016, Congress passed amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) more than forty years after it first passed the law, and the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (“LSCA”) became law on June 22, 2016. The new law, the first major U.S. environmental law in decades, was widely lauded by the American Chemistry Council and other industry groups, but somewhat less warmly received by consumer and public advocacy groups. This article will make the case that while the LSCA had the potential to move us toward a more health protective stance in our federal, chemical regulatory regime, stringent enforcement of the law in a health protective manner does not seem likely in the current political climate. Indeed, the EPA's July 2017 implementation rules for review of existing chemicals and “Framework” documents for new chemicals vitiate many of the Act's intended protections. The article urges that regulating consumer chemicals and products to protect human health and the environment is an issue readily deserving of our attention, and this new law, embodied in the LSCA and accompanying regulation, does not adequately advance the cause. I briefly review the literature that suggests that environmental causes account for many serious illnesses, including cancers, then explore existing and proposed mechanisms in our federal legal framework to regulate toxic substances to protect human health. I next provide an overview of the deficiencies in the “old” TSCA that the LSCA amendments sought to correct, and then outline the basic provisions of the LSCA and critique its initial implementation and what I perceive to be accompanying deficiencies. Finally, I envision a way forward with what I call a “proactive” stance to the regulation of toxic substances. Such a regulatory stance would couple existing law with greater information transparency, and market forces to encourage industry and regulators to better protect human health and the environment.
Discusses the impact of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg Act) on state laws prohibiting or restricting the use of certain chemicals.
There are thousands of substances manufactured in the United States to which the public is routinely exposed and for which toxicity data are limited or absent. Some insist that uncertainty about the severity of potential harm justifies implementing precautionary regulations, while others claim that uncertainty justifies the absence of regulations until sufficient evidence confirms a strong probability of severe harm. In this book, Levente Szentkirályi overcomes this impasse in his defense of precautionary environmental risk regulation by shifting the focus from how to manage uncertainty to what it is we owe each other morally. He argues that actions that create uncertain threats wrongfully gamble with the welfare of those who are exposed and neglect the reciprocity that our equal moral standing demands. If we take the moral equality and rights of others seriously, we have a duty to exercise due care to strive to prevent putting them in possible harm’s way. The Ethics of Precaution will be of great interest to researchers, educators, advanced students, and practitioners working in the fields of environmental political theory, ethics of risk, and environmental policy.