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Broadening Reviews, EPA Overhauls TSCA Risk Evaluation ‘Framework’ Rule

EPA has issued its final TSCA “framework” rule governing risk evaluations of existing chemicals, aiming to broaden the scope of its reviews and codify several controversial Biden administration policies including its “whole chemical” approach for identifying unreasonable risk that several industry groups have attacked as unlawful.

Industry, Environmentalists Clash Ahead Of Power Sector Rules’ Release

Industry and environmentalists are clashing ahead of EPA’s imminent release of a suite of new rules governing power sector emissions, including tougher standards for mercury and other air toxics, new greenhouse gas standards, stricter effluent limits for wastewater discharges and first-time requirements for unregulated coal ash storage sites.
California Toughens Drinking Water MCL For Cr6 As Stakeholders Clash

California water regulators have again strengthened the state’s existing drinking water maximum contaminant level (MCL) for hexavalent chromium (Cr6), lowering it from 50 parts per billion (ppb) to 10 ppb, after hearing clashing opposition from environmentalists and industry representatives.

NASEM Panel Presses EPA Officials On Recycling Policies’ Effectiveness

Members of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) committee examining paths to boost municipal recycling used a recent meeting to question EPA officials about the agency’s existing efforts to aid state and local programs, seeking ways to further “bring down costs” for those governments.

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Stakeholders File Blitz Of Legal Challenges Against TSCA Asbestos Rule

Chemical industry groups, labor unions and a prominent public health group have filed separate petitions asking four different appellate courts to review EPA’s final TSCA risk management rule phasing out ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos, setting up a high-stakes lottery to determine which court will ultimately hear the precedent-setting case.

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