The Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA) issued a statement recently to a key U.S. Senate environmental panel, expressing its opposition to the Safe Chemicals Act introduced earlier this year by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). The bill is an effort to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) enacted in 1976 and expands the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to require recordkeeping or impose restrictions on chemicals.
SOCMA’s statement was submitted to a jointly-held legislative hearing on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) before the full Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health, chaired by Lautenberg.