But the treaty regulates only chemicals used for weapons that are not now, and would not be, traded by United States companies.
The EPA has a better record when regulating newly created chemicals.
The state is also joining a growing trend of state and local governments across the country that are trying to regulate chemicals by using information.
Governments throughout the world rely on this list to regulate toxic chemicals.
European officials stressed to critics that this was the beginning of a debate on how best to regulate chemicals.
California adopted Proposition 65 to regulate toxic chemicals.
States generally defer to the federal government in regulating toxic chemicals because of the scientific and financial burden of studying them.
The agency's problems with daminozide illustrate the slow and uncertain process of regulating chemicals used on food.
But from the very beginning, when it came to regulating chemicals, we said that this should not hit small and medium-sized enterprises in an unbalanced way.
Some may have thought that, with the biocides directive, the EU had finished regulating chemicals, but that is by no means the case!