House, Senate Panel Leaders' Talks Could Avoid TSCA Reform Conference

Top lawmakers on the House and Senate panels that crafted competing versions of Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) reform bills are holding talks this week aimed at developing a compromise final TSCA bill, possibly avoiding a formal legislative conference that might risk difficult negotiations that scuttled past reform attempts. Speaking to Inside EPA following a March 9 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) hearing, EPW ranking member Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said “the leaders of the committees” are meeting...