Environmentalists seek ‘immediate’ EPA TSCA actions on 1-BP risks

Environmentalists are urging EPA to quickly use authority under the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to address acute human health risks that exposure to the solvent chemical 1-bromopropane (1-BP) presents to the very young and to workers, even before the agency finalizes its TSCA risk assessment of the substance. “We want something faster. This is an imminent risk,” Bob Sussman, counsel to the advocacy group Safer Chemicals Healthy Families (SCHF), tells Inside EPA about the push for swift...