Sunday, June 9, 2013

Lautenberg's death leaves chemical safety bill hanging

Lautenberg's death leaves chemical safety bill hanging
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Lautenberg-s-death-leaves-chemical-safety-bill-4577160.php?t=b3728060f34d372650&t=b3728060f3

"The death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., at 89 came just as he was shepherding what some believe - and others fear - may be the most significant federal law in his considerable political career.  Lautenberg's priority for more than a decade had been modernizing the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, one of the country's bedrock environmental laws, and one that experts across the health and industrial spectra agree is hopelessly out of date."

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