About Precaution

Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals

This 2005 Charter by a national coalition of groups presents six principles to reform U.S. chemical laws and regulatory system. The draft charter was crafted at a 2004 national meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, which has eleven industrial facilities releasing millions of pounds per year of toxic air emissions.
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For more information on the principles, including six Background Papers and activities of the Coming Clean Network of groups, go to http://www.louisvillecharter.org