ACC Hints At Future Legal Challenge To EPA’s ‘Whole Chemical’ Approach

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) is signaling that it may challenge the Biden EPA’s broad new “whole chemical” approach to TSCA risk determinations, arguing in comments on the agency’s recent slate of draft revised risk findings for four halogenated solvents it views the approach as “arbitrary” in application. “EPA’s changes to key language in these risk determinations makes EPA’s whole chemical approach more arbitrary in its application and gives EPA greater ability to broaden the conditions of use [COUs] it...