hold the chemcial industry accountable and to protect our families from harmful toxic chemicals

Tell your senators to hold the chemcial industry accountable and to protect our families from harmful toxic chemicals

Dear Friend,

Did you know that the EPA is required to test only a few hundred of the 84,000 different chemicals currently on the market? In fact, the federal law governing how we regulate chemicals doesn’t even require chemical companies to prove that the chemicals they make are safe before they end up in products.

Send a message to your senators now

This means that on a daily basis we are at risk of being exposed to dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals. These harmful chemicals may be in our workplaces, our classrooms and our homes in our clothing, furniture, cleaning products, plastics, cosmetics, children’s toys and countless other everyday products.

In response, we’re working with a coalition of organizations and activists from across the country to push Congress to pass the Safe Chemicals Act, which would take meaningful steps to protect our families from harmful chemicals.

Will you add your voice to the thousands of Americans who are calling on Congress to pass the Safe Chemicals Act? Email your senators now!

The Toxic Substances Control Act, the nation’s primary chemical safety law, has failed to protect public health, the environment and our communities. While the rates of diseases like asthma, diabetes, childhood cancers, infertility, and learning and behavioral disorders keep going up, the federal system that should protect us from harmful chemicals hasn’t changed in 35 years.

The reason for this inaction? The chemical industry is vigorously fighting to protect its profits.

For decades, the chemical industry has fought efforts to reform our nation’s chemical safety laws. Last year, the industry spent $52 million lobbying Congress to block meaningful reform efforts. And just recently, they spent another $1.5 million on deceptive television ads to mislead and confuse the public about the severity of the problem.

Please take a moment now to urge your senators to hold the chemical industry accountable and to protect our families from harmful toxic chemicals.

The Safe Chemicals Act would overhaul the decades-old Toxic Substances Control Act by requiring the EPA to identify and restrict the “worst of the worst” chemicals, upgrading scientific methods for testing and evaluating chemicals and requiring basic health and safety information for all chemicals as a condition for entering or remaining on the market, among other key provisions.

I hope you’ll join us in mobilizing now to protect our families and reform the nation’s chemical safety law.

Thank you,


Gene Karpinski
President
League of Conservation Voters