As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – one of the largest and most influential big business lobbying groups in the world – fired a letter off to Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, telling him to block the regulation of extremely toxic chemicals in consumer plastics. Despite the overwhelming evidence of the dangers of such chemicals, the chamber letter declares that that EPA ‘lacks the sound regulatory science needed to meet the statutory threshold for a restriction or ban of the targeted chemicals.

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