Despite Suggestion, EPA Floats First SNURs Using Streamlined Framework

October 18, 2018
EPA has for the first time proposed significant new use rules (SNURs) to address risks that a group of new chemicals could present if used in certain reasonably foreseen ways, an approach that follows a draft framework for considering new chemicals that the agency floated last year but appeared to abandon after environmentalists sued. The new proposed SNURs, which EPA published in the Federal Register Oct. 16, appear almost certain to face similar suits as environmentalists charge the draft...


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