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Pricing
1960 - 1975
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A series of pesticide and chemical scares heighten public and government concern over chemicals.
1970
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Clarence (Terry) Davies and Charles L. Lettow draft a chemicals regulation bill. Received sharp resistance.
1971
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The Center for Environmental Quality release this influential report explaining the need for Federal law governing chemicals.
1971
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This draft of the chemicals regulation bill died in 1972.
1976
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Gave EPA authority to require industry reporting, record-keeping, and testing of chemical substances. Partially a result of the Kepone Disaster and new administration.
1991
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Court case that concluded that EPA did not have the authority to ban asbestos under TSCA Section 6.
1992
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The committee hearings never resulted in a draft bill being presented to Congress.
2010
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2011
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2012
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04/2013
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05/2013
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2014
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Introduced by Rep. John Shimkus