EPA's List of Suspect Chemicals (Abridged)

How about all the new mercury we will be exposed to when all the broken CFU bulbs get into our ground water and soil?

Mad as a Hatter, we were not designed for an industrial society. I still remember back in the 1960's the average person had over 25 ppb of DDT so as a food source we would be rejected. Now millions of children are having ADD and what do we do, pump them full of more and more chemicals that we have no clue about what they do to the brain. Asama did not exist tell the industrial revolution. In just 200 years we destroyed the environment, and ourselves, the only path to long term survival is separating the human from the industrial machine. Glass instead of plastic to start. Why can't we make a safe flexible glass container? Then we could glass line even pop cans. I suppose we can always build a million Wallies and pray.

Reathsg is absolutely right. There are people out there with an anti-industry agenda. They have been fooled by such organizations as the Sierra Club, PETA, and the communists, who resent companies making money. Even the unions have an anti-profit attitude. If anybody should be standing with industries that make money enough to hire workers, it should be the unions.

Isn't it said that "knowledge is power"? Give me the knowledge, and as a consumer/human on this planet I can decide for myself what to do about it, or with it! But everyone should know what is being put into our environment and bodies. Again we make our own decision to use it or not.

Wow! what a roll Lisa Jacksons EPA is on this week!! Wasnt it chrome in the reservoirs just yesterday?? The scare tactics just keep rolling out at the friendly EPA . Please remember that there is a cost-benefit tipping point in over-regulating our job producers in this country. These frightful reports are put out by activists with a specific ant-industry agenda. We need heavy manufacturering n USA to pull us out of tis recession!! Industry has already been tormented enough by this agency, meanwhile Americans are living longer tann ever and American manufcturers are being driven offshore of forced to rduce hiring because our "benevolent" EPA is trying to outlaw or hyper-regulate down to .02 part per BILLION every compound that might sound scary to the average uneducated citizen.

It is a long time in coming to the conclusion that we need to hold the chemical industry responsible for the testing and safe production of chemicals that affect us all. The lobby for the chemical companies cannot be as important to true representatives of the people as the health of the people.

The EPA, YMCA, PGA, or whoever they are this week have been in bed with the drug and chemical companies for years, They understood all the dangers, but "silence is golden". Wonder who twisted their coat tail to spill this list?

Unless you live in a bubble,
one cannot avoid most agents on the list.
People still live to their 90's and have been
smokers, drinking soda, etc. all their lives,.
If you have good genes, that's what really counts.

Next the EPA is gonna say that air is bad for you too. again another government agencie looking to out do another. people live longer now with all these Chemicals in our food and wate,,WHY!! if there so bad. in the early 1900 people were lucky to live past 60, now its more like 80. Maybe its because the more we advance the more we worrie. Life is short and a one time ride, enjoy it!!!!!

I appreciate the content of this article. However, I've noticed that when one clicks the "print" button, the printer tries to offer 16 pages, which is everything on these pages, ads, etc. Even trimming this back to 4 pages was slightly wasteful, as the first pertinent wording was on page 2, and only two lines. Why can't you ever fix tis function, and give a concise presentation of the article?