EPA May Have To Redo TSCA Analyses After Court Backs ‘Legacy’ Reviews

The recent appellate ruling requiring EPA to consider risks from existing chemicals’ legacy uses under the revised toxics law may force the agency to re-do several already issued draft risk evaluations and rush to revise upcoming drafts, according to environmentalists and other plaintiffs, potentially forcing the agency to miss statutory deadlines for some of the first 10 substances under review. “EPA will now have to scramble to re-write its draft evaluations to account for ongoing ‘uses and disposals’ of so-called...