EPA Finalizes TSCA Rule Imposing Worker-Safety Mandates On CTC Uses

EPA has issued a final TSCA risk management rule for the solvent carbon tetrachloride (CTC) that sets strict new worker-protection requirements for many applications of the chemical while allowing industry to continue most if not all of those current uses, while extending key compliance deadlines from what it proposed last year. The agency posted its CTC rule online Dec. 11, ahead of its yet-unscheduled publication in the Federal Register . The rule will take effect 30 days after that publication...