STLtoday.com: "In addition to legislative changes, the EPA will use existing regulatory power to launch new reviews of 'priority' chemicals that the agency could ultimately restrict or ban. Among those are bisphenol A and phthalates. Bisphenol A, or BPA, is a plastic-hardening chemical. Phthalates, a substance that adds flexibility and durability, is used in everything from glues to medicine coatings to vinyl upholstery. Both are associated with disrupting hormone production."
While the EPA's goals seem to cover very basic ground, environmental health advocates say the move is evidence that the nation's chemical regulations under the TSCA -- sometimes pronounced "tosca" -- are obselete.
"The system we have now assumes that chemicals are innocent until proven guilty," said Jane Houlihan, senior vice president for research at Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C. "These reforms introduced today would flip that."
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