EPA Issues First TSCA Risk Evaluation Since 2021, Of Flame Retardant TCEP

EPA has completed its first new TSCA evaluation of an existing chemical since the Trump administration, finding that 10 of 21 uses for the flame retardant tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) contribute to “unreasonable risk” -- a conclusion that triggers a two-year statutory deadline for the agency to regulate those risks. The Sept. 23 TCEP evaluation is both EPA’s first completed existing-chemical review since early 2021, and the first for any of the 20 substances it targeted as “high priority” for evaluation...