{"id":317,"date":"2009-12-11T23:14:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T04:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2009-12-11T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T04:25:44","slug":"fixing-our-broken-chemical-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Our Broken Chemical Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Elizabeth Grossman, HUFFINGTON POST, December 9, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/harmful.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"harmful\" border=\"0\" alt=\"harmful\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/harmful_thumb.jpg\" width=\"124\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a> While Afghanistan, the economy, Copenhagen and health care grabbed headlines this week, on December 2nd, Senators Frank Lautenberg and Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment &amp; Public Works committee, held <a href=\"http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&amp;Hearing_ID=129f8be4-802a-23ad-4217-c8c5900bf3db\">a hearing<\/a> on an issue that could significantly influence three out of four of those big ticket items. That issue is chemicals &#8211; the synthetic and industrial chemicals, largely petrochemical in origin that permeate every aspect of our lives &#8211; and the inadequacies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/lawsregs\/laws\/tsca.html\">TSCA<\/a> (Toxic Substances Control Act), the primary law aimed at protecting Americans from chemical hazards<\/p>\n<p>Also slipping in under the headlines was introduction of the<a href=\"http:\/\/moran.house.gov\/apps\/list\/press\/va08_moran\/Endocrine.shtml\"> Endocrine Disruption Prevention Act of 2009<\/a> by Senator John Kerry and Representative Jim Moran. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/elizabeth-grossman\/fixing-our-broken-chemica_b_381927.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of industrial chemicals can be found in the bodies of  newborn American babies, but our EPA has no power to demand that the companies who use them prove they are safe. The Senate is trying to change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[79,78,75,77,80,73,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}