Abstract
This act of Toxic Substances Control offers the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the ability to control industrial chemicals that are not protected by other statutes. It is know that till this day there are added more than 83,000 such chemicals. Nevertheless, the law is commonly observed as weak and out-of-date, and a number of different stakeholders have called for its reform, quoting the EPA’s failure to control the use of asbestos, throughout extra substances. They analyze the errors in the act and recommend different methods in which the EPA gets strength and improves their position itself to accomplish chemical hazards and safeguard the public’s health. Furthermore to the different tools and technologies it is accepting, the agency needs new associates both inside and outside the government in its determinations to classify and regulate hazardous chemicals.

Name of the environmental law
-The Toxic Substances Control Act
Date the law was passed
- 1976
Provide a description of the law
- The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 provides EPA with power to need reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to chemical substances and or mixtures. Some substances are mostly disqualified from TSCA, including, among others, food, drugs, cosmetics and pesticides.
Background information what initiated the law? Why it was provide specific information about the situation.
-The objective of the Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA) is to allow EPA to regulate new commercial chemicals before they enter the market, to regulate existing chemicals (1976) when they pose an unreasonable risk to health or to the environment, and to regulate their distribution and use.
Economic impact of the law. Provide specific economic data from credible references.
- Proposed Coal Mine Dust regulations and estimated the costs of wide-spread work stoppages in underground mining due to the proposed changes in coal mine dust concentration levels and sampling requirements.
-Exponent’s analysis demonstrated that these industry costs would exceed the estimated benefits of the proposed rule by a substantial amount.
-Exponent staff served as a testifying expert on the potential economic impacts on industry from implementation of the proposed Coal Mine Dust regulations.
Has the law improved the environmental situation provide specific data facts from credible reference.
-In California, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has a number of significant shortcomings. Among other things, it does not generally require companies to test chemicals for possible health effects before using them in consumer products. And though the federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act limits the amount of lead and bans certain chemicals known as phthalates in children's products, it doesn’t restrict the use of other toxic substances in consumer goods. To respond to this gap in addressing the use of toxic substances in consumer products, California adopted new regulations on Oct. 1 designed to create safer substitutes for hazardous ingredients in products sold in the state
References

www2.epa.gov/.../summary-toxic-substances-control-act www.epa.gov/enviro/facts/tsca www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/chapter-53 www.saferchemicals.org/resources/tsca.html