EPA Plans To Drop Use-Specific Findings In Methylene Chloride Evaluation

EPA says in a new court filing that it intends to drop the Trump-era practice of making separate risk findings for each condition of use it reviewed in the TSCA evaluation of methylene chloride, and to instead craft a single “binary” determination for the chemical, with EPA seeking a remand of the evaluation to rework it under that model. “EPA intends to propose transitioning to instead make a binary determination of whether the chemical substance, methylene chloride, presents unreasonable risk...