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Business Leaders Support Safe Chemicals Efforts by Senators Lautenberg and Vitter

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Economic Growth in Tandem with Health and Environmental Protections WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 — Today, Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and David Vitter (R-LA) announced a bipartisan compromise bill, the Chemical Safety Improvement Act, to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act. The following statement is from David Levine, Cofounder and CEO of the American Sustainable Business […]

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And we say we love our children

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You probably wonder why the rate of childhood diseases like autism are at all-time highs.  Same thing for cases of Attention Deficit Disorder.   The answer might be right on store shelves. The Washington Toxics Coalition and Safer Statesreport that children’s products are loaded with toxic chemicals like mercury, arsenic and cadmium.  Over 5000 of these

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Reform the Toxic Substance Control Act

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Reforming the federal Toxic Substance Control Act is widely supported by small business owners across the country.  That was one of the conclusions of a poll released in late 2012.  My opinion editorial in The Hill gives more of the results of that poll. ———————————————————————————— The New York Times  April 18, 2013 A Toothless Law

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Green Job Growth Outpaced All Other Industries 2010-2011

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The Huffington Post  |  By Ryan Grenoble Posted: 03/20/2013 1:02 pm EDT  |  Updated: 03/21/2013 11:58 am EDT For people looking to put their finances in the black, a new report suggests they may be wise to look green. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that breaks down employment in

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Fracking Seen by EPA as No. 2 Emitter of Greenhouse Gases

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Bloomberg NewsFebruary 6, 2013 By Mark Drajem http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-02-05/greenhouse-gas-emissions-fall-in-u-dot-s-dot-power-plants-on-coal-cuts Natural gas and oil production is the second-biggest source of U.S. greenhouse gases, the government said, emboldening environmentalists who say tighter measures are needed to curb the emissions from hydraulic fracturing. In its second-annual accounting of emissions that cause global warming from stationary sources, the U.S. Environmental

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Don’t tie the hands of Consumer Product Safety Commission

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The Hill’s Congress Blog  By Frank Knapp, Jr. We have heard an ongoing cry from organizations claiming to represent all businesses that they oppose any government action on toxic chemicals in our products, warning of increased costs and job losses. Now, a new independent poll shows that when it comes to protecting workers and consumers

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Toxic Chemical Reform Good for Business – New Poll

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91% of Small Businesses Want Chemical Industry Held Responsible for Safe Chemicals in Marketplace  http://asbcouncil.org/toxic-chemicals-poll Washington, DC – American small business owners want the chemical industry to be held responsible for toxic chemicals in the marketplace, according to a new poll commissioned by the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC). Small business owners nationwide show strong

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Poisoning our children

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Retailers of back to school clothing are seeing parents and older school-age children holding out before going all in on purchasing.  It’s all about being fashionable. In an interview with the New York Times, Amazon’s fashion president Cathy Beaudoin says that waiting until after Labor Day to buy clothes for older kids allows the students

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Protecting cancer-causing chemicals is not good for small business

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Since when is protecting cancer-causing chemicals good for small businesses? That is one of the arguments Congressional supporters of an effort to defund the annual “Report on Carcinogens” (ROC) are making. The ROC is produced by the National Institutes for Environmental Health Science. The NIEHS does not test the chemicals.  It reviews scientific literature from

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