EDF President Fred Krupp Joins Senators, Health and Environmental Advocates, Businesses to Call for Swift Action on Chemical Safety

(Washington, D.C. – October 6, 2015) Today Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp joined with a bipartisan group of Senators, leading health and environmental advocates and business representatives to call for swift Senate action on the Lautenberg Act to fix America’s chemical safety law.

“Thanks to the bipartisan efforts of the Senators here today, we’re on the cusp of an historic victory for public health,” said Krupp. “By fixing a chemical safety law that has been broken for almost forty years, the Lautenberg Act would make every American breathe easier about the safety of the products we use at home, at school, and at work. Forty years is long enough: It’s time for the Senate to make history and see to it that a strong bill gets to the President’s desk quickly.”

The bipartisan Lautenberg bill would overhaul the nation’s broken chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA), which turns 39 years old on Oct. 11. The proposal is named for the late Senator Lautenberg, who long pushed to reform TSCA. It currently has the support of 60 Senators – 25 Democrats and 35 Republicans – from 38 states and is ready for a vote on the Senate floor.

Additional resources can be found on EDF’s website, EDF’s Health blog and on fixTSCAnow.org.