EPA Touts ‘Year Six’ TSCA Agenda As Rulemaking Deadlines Loom

As the reformed TSCA reaches its fifth anniversary, EPA is touting its new agenda for implementing the chemicals law but stopping short of promising to meet its tight statutory deadlines -- including the looming target for proposing its methylene chloride risk management rule. In a June 22 release, the agency highlights both the anniversary of former President Barack Obama signing the reworked Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and the Biden administration’s early moves on chemicals policy, but avoids mention of...