Facing Delay Of PBT Deadline Rule, EPA Pushes DecaBDE Ban To January

EPA is postponing through Jan. 6 enforcement of a Trump-era mandate for nuclear facilities to phase out insulated wire and other components made with the flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE), conceding that a rule extending the Oct. 31 deadline for decaBDE and another “persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic” (PBT) flame retardants will not take effect this year. But the agency appears to be taking no such action for the other target of that rule, phenol, isopropylated phosphate, or PIP (3:1) --...