Incoming Biden EPA Faces Tough TSCA Risk Management Choices In 2021

Incoming Biden officials face a looming test in EPA’s implementation of the revised TSCA -- crafting its first risk management rules for the first 10 chemicals the Trump administration is slated to evaluate before leaving office, with industry and environmentalists already at loggerheads over the stringency over any future regulations. Industry officials have long been pushing the agency to codify a narrow, “tailored” approach to writing any risk management rules while environmentalists are pushing officials to take speedy, short-term actions...