Industry Backs TSCA New Chemical Review Plan Despite EPA Abandonment

August 15, 2018
Chemical and other manufacturers are aggressively defending EPA's draft framework for reviewing new chemicals under the revised toxics law, charging it is consistent with the law and sufficiently protective, even though the agency has signaled it will not implement the plan in the face of a lawsuit from environmentalists. Given the draft policy's abandonment, the industries' defense, as well as their separate request for oral argument, appears to underscore business support for EPA's discretion to determine chemicals' risks and any...


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