The Safe Chemicals Act (S. 696)
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families represents over 450 organizations and millions of Americans who are concerned about toxic chemicals.
We are nurses, moms, learning disability advocates, small business owners, reproductive health advocates, cancer survivors and people with varied interests all coming together to protect families from toxic chemicals.
Our coalition is working to repair our broken system and pass the Safe Chemicals Act.
Senator Frank Lautenberg and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, along with 27 co-sponsors, have introduced the Safe Chemicals Act, a bill that would put common sense limits on toxic chemicals. Partnership, hard work, and commitment to protecting the health of American families can drive this bill forward.
This spring we expect to see a vote on the bill in the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee and hope to see it move to the Senate floor.
The Safe Chemicals Act
- What would the Safe Chemicals Act do?
- Current List of Co-Sponsors
- Read our Press Release on the Safe Chemicals Act
More information:
- Read the 2013 Senate Bill (PDF)
- Read the 2013 Senate Bill Summary (PDF)
- Sen. Lautenberg's press release on the Safe Chemicals Act of 2013
- Read our press release on the Safe Chemicals Act of 2013
- Read the Safe Chemicals Act factsheet (PDF)
- How the Safe Chemicals Act would fix TSCA's major flaws (PDF)
"Americans across the political spectrum have woken up to the fact that unregulated toxic chemicals get into their homes and their bodies," said Andy Igrejas, Director of Safer Chemicals, Health Families. "It is uniformly unnerving. The Safe Chemicals Act would establish common sense limits on these chemicals that are broadly popular and long overdue."
Legislative News
Much-Needed Legislation Would Protect Americans from Unsafe Chemicals
Washington, DC – Led by Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), 29 senators today introduced the Safe Chemicals Act of 2013. The legislation would provide long overdue fixes to the nation’s broken chemical policies and limit the use of unsafe chemicals linked to cancer and other illnesses.
Andy Igrejas, executive director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a coalition of 450 health, environment, business and labor groups said:
"Americans across the political spectrum have woken up to the fact that unregulated toxic chemicals get into their homes and their bodies. It is uniformly unnerving. The Safe Chemicals Act would establish common sense limits on these chemicals that are broadly popular and long overdue."
Similar to a bill cleared by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in the 112th Congress, the Safe Chemicals Act would go a long way toward protecting Americans from chemicals before they are linked to reproductive and developmental disorders, cancers and other illnesses that are costly to treat and often preventable. Specifically, it would:
- Require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify and restrict the "worst of the worst" chemicals.
- Require basic health and safety information for chemicals as a condition for entering or remaining on the market.
- Upgrade scientific methods for assessing chemical safety.
- Arm the EPA with the authority it needs to restrict chemicals that pose health and environmental concerns.
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For more information, contact: Tony Iallonardo, at tonyiallonardo@saferchemicals.org or 202-503-8581.
