Public Health Groups Move to Enter Fight Over Toxic Chemical

by Gary Kopycinski on May 21, 2012

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Oppose industry challenge to listing styrene as potential carcinogen; Public’s right to know government health findings under attack

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2012. One of the largest labor organizations in the U.S., a leading environmental advocacy group, and one of the top physicians in occupational medicine filed legal papers late Friday aimed at making sure government can alert the American public to the potential dangers of styrene, a chemical used extensively in the manufacture of plastics,…