One of the USA’s largest unions and leading environmental advocacy groups started legal proceedings in May 2012 aimed at making sure the US government can alert the American public to the potential dangers of top cancer suspect styrene. The legal action by USW, the Environmental Defense Fund and Earthjustice is in support of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ listing of styrene as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen,” in response to a chemical industry lawsuit attempting to force the agency to withdraw the styrene warning.

Earthjustice news release, 21 May 2012. Risks 557.