Yes, Virginia (and all 49 other states), chemicals do cause cancer

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The Safer Chemicals Healthy Families coalition, of which EDF is a founding member, includes a host of health and health-affected organizations whose missions are to reduce preventable causes of these and other rising diseases and disorders. See Who We Are.

The coalition recently released a report — The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act — that summarizes the wealth of scientific and medical evidence connecting the dots between rising chemical exposures and rising incidence of major categories of chronic diseases: cancer, learning and developmental disabilities, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, reporductive health and fertility problems, and asthma.

Finally, the coalition is a key stakeholder in the debate over reform of the broken and outdated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). That debate is now in full swing with the introduction of Senator Frank Lautenberg's Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 and a companion discussion draft released by House of Representatives Chairmen Bobby Rush and Henry Waxman. See this post for details.

You can urge Congress to pass strong TSCA reform legislation. Click here to take action, and click here to learn more about this critical issue.