EPA's Proposed Novel TSCA TCE Ban Faces Uncertain Fate Under Trump

December 7, 2016
EPA's Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) proposal to ban certain uses of the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) marks the agency's first attempt to prohibit a substance since its failed bid to ban asbestos in the 1980s, though the rule faces an uncertain fate as industry is expected to lobby the incoming Trump administration against finalizing it. The proposed rule to prohibit TCE use as an aerosol degreaser and for spot cleaning in dry cleaning facilities is also the first proposed risk...


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