Key analysis pre-TSCA reform

Date updated: September 10, 2018

Reports and papers leading to TSCA reform

  • Toxics Across America

    This report tallied billions of pounds of chemicals in the American marketplace that are known or strongly suspected to cause increasingly common disorders, including certain cancers, developmental disabilities, and infertility. The report helped raise awareness about how widespread toxic chemical exposures are.

    Report page

    2014

  • Ten essential elements in TSCA reform [PDF]

    EDF lead senior scientist Richard Denison's paper published in the Environmental Law Reporter, laid out one of the earliest blueprints for new legislation to replace the outmoded Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 - which was finally updated in 2016 with the Lautenberg Act.

    Report [PDF]

    January 2009

  • Across the Pond: How Europe's rules affect U.S.

    This report assessed one of the first impacts that the new European regulation called REACH had on U.S. companies and chemicals: REACH's identification of "substances of very high concern."

    Report page

    January 2009

  • Not That Innocent

    This report documented the urgent need for policy reform. Our analysis contrasted U.S. policies with those in Canada and the European Union and identified "best practices" culled from all three systems that together created a vision for future U.S. chemicals policy.

    Report page

    2008

  • Toxic Ignorance [PDF]

    This seminal report raised public awareness of how few widely used chemicals had been tested and how few public data on their safety were available.

    Report [PDF]

    1997

Past EPA policy and science programs