EPA Plans Program To Elevate Cross-Agency Action On Emerging Chemicals

EPA is planning to expand a pilot project into a full-fledged program in the coming fiscal year that elevates certain emerging contaminants for cross-agency action, although it currently has no plans to create a new standing office to take an agency-wide focus on the chemicals despite a recent recommendation from a panel of state waste regulators to do so. The agency, however, is continuing to review the recommendations in a report from the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste...