Better together: Greenlist & TURI's newsletter

A Note from the Director

Dear friends and colleagues,

At TURI, we’re working to ensure companies have all the information they need to easily reduce their toxics footprint. For years, we’ve shared our top reads each month in our Greenlist Bulletin so that subscribers can stay up to date, understand industry changes, and learn more about toxics use reduction.

We’re excited to combine the Greenlist into our monthly newsletter so that all pertinent information is available in one easy-to-read format!

This month, you’ll find more information about new EPA findings, a paper published by TURI’s own Liz Harriman, and our new “What We’re Reading” section, which will highlight our Greenlist articles for the month.

We hope you’ll find these articles helpful and informative as you continue your work!

Best,

Baskut

New Publication: The Essential-Use Approach

Liz Harriman, TURI's Deputy Director, co-authored a paper on how a new approach can help governments and businesses eliminate harmful chemicals from daily use and exposure.

The paper, co-authored with experts from the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Green Science Policy Institute, University of Toronto, and NRDC, was published last month in Environmental Science & Technology.

The paper lays out an approach for considering whether uses of highly hazardous chemicals are essential and whether safer alternatives are available that benefit public health, the environment, and the economy.

LEARN MORE

News: TCE Poses an Unreasonable Risk to Human Health

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized a revision to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk determination for trichloroethylene (TCE), finding that TCE, as a whole chemical substance, presents an unreasonable risk to human health when evaluated under that majority of its conditions of use.

TCE is a volatile organic compound used mostly as a feedstock chemical and in industrial and commercial cleaning and degreasing processes.

EPA Releases New PFAS Analytic Tools. “EPA’s PFAS Analytic Tools webpage brings together for the first time data from multiple sources in an easy-to-use format,” said John Dombrowski, Director of EPA’s Office of Compliance.

Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate. Research has found that some dark chocolate bars contain cadmium and lead—two heavy metals linked to a host of health problems in children and adults.

ECHA Receives PFAS Restriction Proposal From Five National Authorities. The national authorities of Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have submitted a proposal to ECHA to restrict per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) under REACH, the European Union’s (EU) chemicals regulation.

Late-breaking news: ECHA Publishes PFAS Restriction Proposal for Around 10,000 PFAS