ACC Urges EPA To Tailor Science Rule Adoption, Fearing TSCA Effects

The chemical industry is generally backing EPA's controversial proposed rule limiting the use of science in regulatory and policy decisions but is calling for guidance from the agency’s toxics office, fearing that the rule’s implementation could delay agency decisions such as new chemical approvals under the revised toxics law “Applying the Strengthening Transparency rule to the Toxic Substances Control Act’s (TSCA’s) Section 5 new chemicals program may render review of premanufacture notices (PMNs) impossible within the 90-day statutory timeframe,” the...