Real Health-Protective Toxics Policy

These reform proposals would:

• Allow known "bad actor" chemicals like lead, asbestos, formaldehyde, and chromium to remain on the market and in our communities;
• Provide very limited health and safety information on chemicals;
• Fail to ensure protections for the most vulnerable, like pregnant women, children, workers, and communities surrounded by polluting facilities; and
• Roll back existing state regulations and prevent new laws from being enacted. among other flaws.

• Require that chemicals be shown safe to remain in use, rather than require they be shown harmful to be removed.
• Establish clear protections for children, pregnant women, workers, and hotspot communities heavily affected by pollution and toxic chemicals.
• Preserve states' rights to regulate chemicals and to be more protective than federal standards.
• Empower the EPA to move quickly on the worst chemicals, including bans and phase outs if necessary.
• Utilize the best available science to assess chemical hazards.
• Allow public access to chemical hazard information and data as a means to support innovation in the development of products that are safer and greener.
• Incentivize industry to design hazards out of products in the first place