House, Senate Panels Focus Early TSCA Reform Push On New Chemicals

Key House and Senate committees are eyeing targeted measures in their initial efforts to overhaul TSCA, according to two staffers, with an early focus on the law’s new chemicals program, signaling such efforts are unlikely to accommodate broad -- and partisan -- reforms to the 2016 law that some in industry may seek. Jake Kennedy, a senior professional staff member for Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Chairman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), told the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) annual...