Reducing Toxic Threats - xxx Sample Clauses

Reducing Toxic Threats - xxx xxx.xx.xxx/xxxxxx/xxxxx.xxx Washington is a national leader when it comes to enacting and implementing policies to clean up, manage, and prevent problems caused by the ongoing use of, and exposure to, toxic substances throughout our economy. Yet toxic substances and pollutants continue to pose risks to human health and the environment. They are in our air, water, and soil, and in our bodies. Some toxic chemicals impair development, some affect reproduction, some disrupt our body chemistry, and some cause cancer. Some chemicals have limited impacts on humans but can be devastating to fish or other species. Of the tens of thousands of chemicals in use today, we know about the toxicity of very few. And we know even less about the combined effects of all these chemicals. Many environmental programs in Ecology and EPA are working to reduce toxic threats in one way or another. We have well established and effective programs to clean up and manage toxic substances. However, these programs were not designed to prevent many of the point or nonpoint releases of toxics that we are now finding to be problematic. While EPA has some authority to regulate toxic substances in products through the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), it is used very infrequently. At the state level, Ecology is working to integrate and balance three ways of reducing toxic threats:
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