Many TSCA Advisors Back EPA’s Controversial TCE Risk Approach

March 27, 2020
Despite some divisions, many of EPA’s toxics advisors appear to be backing the agency’s controversial approach for assessing the risks of trichloroethylene (TCE), the widely used solvent, likely clearing a path for EPA to finalize a less-conservative evaluation under the toxics law than what many environmentalists and other public health advocates favor. While the advisors are unlikely to reach consensus on the issue, their comments during a March 26 meeting of EPA’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) suggested that...


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