Link to Letter
Washington, D.C. - Four Environment and Public Works (EPW) Republicans, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Senators David Vitter (R-LA), Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today sent a letter to Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) expressing disappointment that Democrats chose to derail the bipartisan progress the EPW committee had made in efforts to modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and are instead moving forward to markup a highly partisan bill. The Senators expressed concern that such a move will fail to advance meaningful TSCA reform in the long term, and said that although they are disappointed that Democrats abandoned their agreement to proceed in a bipartisan fashion, EPW Republicans will continue in their efforts to develop legislation that can achieve these much-needed reforms.
