EPA Readies New Chemical Risk Analyses As TSCA Reform Prospects Fade

October 23, 2014
EPA is adding 23 new chemicals to the list of chemicals it plans to assess using existing Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) authority, highlighting the agency's ongoing plan to exert its powers under the decades-old law given fading prospects for Congress to agree on a bill to overhaul TSCA and update EPA's chemical review authority. In an Oct. 23 announcement , the agency also removed 15 other chemicals that are no longer used in commerce from the list of 83...


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