EPA Denies Washington State’s Petition To Tighten TSCA PCB Limits

EPA has denied Washington state regulators’ TSCA petition for tighter limits on “inadvertent” polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in consumer products, saying that the request failed to show any deficiencies in the agency’s 1984 rule governing the chemicals, or new information showing risk to human health or the environment at currently allowed levels. “EPA is denying the request to initiate a proceeding for the amendment of a rule under [Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)] section 6(e) because, although the EPA shares the...