Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Briefing on Capitol Hill with Congressman Bobby Rush

Wednesday, May 19, 2010
10:00-11:30am
2322 Rayburn House Office Building

Sponsors: NAACP, BlueGreen Alliance and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

The NAACP, BlueGreen Alliance and the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Campaign are pleased to invite you to a briefing with leaders from the civil rights, religious and environmental communities about new legislation to reform the broken and outdated Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976, our country’s primary law to manage dangerous chemicals. Congressman Bobby Rush (D-1st IL) and Congressman Henry Waxman (D-30th CA) recently introduced a discussion draft in the U.S. House of Representatives reforming this statute. We are honored to have Congressman Rush scheduled to kick off the briefing on Wednesday at 10am.

The briefing will include a short tutorial on TSCA, an overview of the bills now moving through Congress to update TSCA and a presentation on the positive impact TSCA reform could have on the health and living conditions of people of color and low income communities across the United States.

If you have questions, please email Emily Enderle at Earthjustice: eenderle@earthjustice.org

Joint Center scholar Michael Dorsey to debate on Democracy Now!

Please join us at the TckTckTck Fresh Air Center in downtown Copenhagen for “Real Talk” a happy hour from 6-8pm sponsored by the UN Foundation.

We’ll start at 7pm with “10 Provocations on Climate Change”, a slideshow performance by The Canary Project.

After that we’ll host rapid fire exchange on the state of play of emerging carbon markets between Professor Michael Dorsey of Climate Justice Now and Dirk Forrister of the International Emission Trading Association. The debate will be moderated by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!.

Where: Fresh Air Center, Rådhusstræde 13, Copenhagen
When: 6pm happy hour, 7pm performance, 7:15pm debate