scholarly journals 2021 Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Toxic Substances Control Act and the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act

EDIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Michael T. Olexa ◽  
Tatiana Borisova ◽  
Jana Caracciolo
Keyword(s):  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Water Regulation ◽  
Chemical Safety ◽  
Toxic Substances Control Act

This handbook is designed to provide a summary of the principal federal and state (Florida) laws that directly or indirectly relate to agriculture. Because these laws are subject to constant revision, portions of the handbook could become outdated at any time. The reader should use it as a means to determine areas in which to seek more information and as a brief directory of agencies that can help answer more specific questions.

scholarly journals Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Toxic Substances Control Act

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2006 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Olexa ◽  
Luke D'Isernia ◽  
Laura Minton ◽  
Dulcy Miller ◽  
Sarah Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Resource Economics ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Water Regulation ◽  
Chemical Safety ◽  
Contact Information ◽  
Economics Department ◽  
The Many ◽  
Toxic Substances Control Act ◽  
Farmland Owners

This handbook is designed to provide an accurate, current, and authoritative summary of the principle Federal and Florida laws that directly or indirectly relate to agriculture. This handbook should provide a basic overview of the many rights and responsibilities that farmers and farmland owners have under both Federal and Florida laws as well as the appropriate contact information to obtain more detailed information. However, the reader should be aware that because the laws, administrative rulings, and court decisions on which this handbook is based are subject to constant revision, portions of this publication could become outdated at anytime. Several details of cited laws are also left out due to space limitations. This document is FE591, one of a series of the Food and Resource Economics Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Published December 2005. FE591/FE591: 2021 Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Toxic Substances Control Act and the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (ufl.edu)

The Drive for a Safer Chemicals Policy in the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Belliveau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Chemical Safety ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Chemical Policy ◽  
Chemicals Policy ◽  
Progressive Policy ◽  
Toxic Substances Control Act

This article analyzes the history, policies and politics of the modern era of safer chemical policy reform in the United States. In the last decade, state laws have modeled a chemical policy framework to phase out unnecessary dangerous chemicals in favor of safer alternatives. These state drivers, along with market campaigns to reduce downstream business use of hazardous chemicals, have weakened the chemical industry's resistance to fixing the broken federal chemical safety system. The obsolete Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) has failed to protect public health and the environment and has stifled innovation toward greener chemistry. Health advocates with a progressive policy vision tempered by legislative pragmatism have launched a TSCA reform campaign to challenge chemical industry power in a weak Congress. The opportunity and limits to winning meaningful TSCA reform are characterized and marked as a critical milestone on the path to a truly comprehensive safer chemical policy for the United States.

What REACH can teach us about TSCA: Retrospectives of America's Failed Toxics Statute

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
James T. O'Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Personal Essay ◽  
Chemical Safety ◽  
Comparative Risk ◽  
Toxic Substances Control Act

Comparative risk assessments in the chemical safety field sometimes adopt a lofty view of the purposes of legislation. This personal essay is not lofty, and it is not just another professor's comparison of the purposes of the European Union's REACH with American regulatory programmes. I write today as an individual, as the last active remaining participant of the small group of industry players in 1975–76 who helped to negotiate the details of the 1976 US Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”). As advocates for industry we won the key arguments over the law's terms and conditions, but the decades since have not shown TSCA to be a triumph for anyone.

Regulation of Chemicals

2019 ◽  
pp. 577-606
Author(s):  
Lucas Bergkamp ◽  
Adam Abelkop
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Chemical Safety ◽  
Chemical Risk ◽  
Chemicals Regulation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Chemicals Policy ◽  
Toxic Substances Control Act ◽  
Reach Regulation

This chapter examines the regulation of chemicals, with emphasis on commonalities and differences in regulatory approaches. It begins with a brief overview of key concepts that underlie chemicals regulation, explaining what chemicals regulation is, the hazards and risks associated with chemicals, policy principles, informational inputs, and how chemicals are identified. The chapter then considers the general components of chemicals regulation, namely: screening and prioritization, risk assessment and decision analysis, and risk management. It also discusses regulatory fragmentation, risk management through the supply chain, and the complementary roles of regulation and liability systems. Finally, it shows how common aspects of chemical risk laws fit into the EU’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation and the US Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSA).

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