Senator Boxer says chemicals bill was written by chemical industry.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I do not believe a regulated industry should be so intimately involved in writing a bill that regulates them.
—California Senator Barbara Boxer, who says the final draft of a bill to reform regulations on toxic chemicals was written by chemical-industry lobbyists. Last week, Boxer unveiled a competing bill, which specifies tougher safeguards against asbestos and other dangerous substances.