U.S. Senator and World War II veteran Frank Lautenberg
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When Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) — the law designed to regulate potentially dangerous chemicals in the environment — in 1976, Gerald Ford was still President and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was the No. 1 song of the year.
Thirty-four years have passed since the TSCA's adoption, and in that time nearly every major environmental law of the 1970s — like the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act — has been revised to reflect changing science and greater public concern about the environment and human health. But the TSCA has remained stuck in the 1970s, an aging throwback that never gave Washington any real power to protect people from potentially toxic chemicals./.../
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