TSCA Reform Push For Industry-Led Risk Assessments Faces Opposition

BALTIMORE -- A former top Bush White House official is suggesting lawmakers crafting Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) reform legislation include provisions giving industry power to develop chemical risk assessments that EPA would use as the basis for regulation, but Democrats and environmentalists say they would oppose any such plan. In his remarks at the annual GlobalChem conference here March 3, John Graham, the former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs during George W. Bush's...