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Role of Congress continued...
What Congress will do and how much responsibility industry will take is not yet known, he says.
Jeff Stier, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, says he would not count on the federal legislation passing any time soon. The National Center for Public Policy Research is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank.
"For decades, activists have been hyping fear in order to advance their legislative agenda which reduces consumer choice and adds to our costs, without making us any safer," says Stier. "As Congress considers TSCA Reform, known as the Safe Chemicals Act, be prepared for another round of scaremongering designed to influence legislation," he says.
"It is unlikely that it will pass," he says. "It is not a priority for this Congress, and the next Congress won't support it."