Broadening Reviews, EPA Overhauls TSCA Risk Evaluation ‘Framework’ Rule

EPA has issued its final TSCA “framework” rule governing risk evaluations of existing chemicals, aiming to broaden the scope of its reviews and codify several controversial Biden administration policies including its “whole chemical” approach for identifying unreasonable risk that several industry groups have attacked as unlawful. The April 23 rule reworks much of EPA’s Trump-era risk evaluation policy, which was one of the first it finalized following Congress’ reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 2016. It adopts...