Green Chemistry Group Eyes Voluntary Adoption Under ‘Incremental’ TSCA

A green chemistry researcher and strategist who heads up the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3) of industry and citizen groups says he expects future adoption of safer substitutes in the United States to be largely voluntary, as the revised TSCA is ill-suited for more than “incremental” change through regulation. Joel Tickner, a professor of public health at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who also serves as founder and executive director of GC3, tells Inside TSCA that although a...