Health Groups Seek Broad Limits On Toxic Chemicals To Prevent Cancer

A broad coalition of health and other groups is calling for a sweeping effort to limit the manufacture and use of toxic industrial and other chemicals as an interim step to prevent the growing increase in cancer cases that exposures to the substances are believed to cause. The effort could win favor with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who has suggested his son’s fatal brain cancer may have been caused by such environmental exposures. “Reducing the use of and exposure...