Methylene Chloride Suit Marks First Test Of EPA's TSCA Responsibilities

Environmentalists are suing EPA over its failure to ban paint-stripping uses of methylene chloride after finding that it does not meet the Toxic Substances Control Act's (TSCA) risk standard, marking one of the first legal tests of the agency's responsibilities to regulate toxic substances under the law since Congress revised it in 2016. Environmentalists filed the suit, Vermont Public Interest Research Group et al v. Wheeler et al , Jan. 14 in the U.S. District Court for the District of...