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Environmentalists Say Trump ‘Interference’ Requires Reworking TCE Study

March 1, 2021
Environmentalists are urging EPA to redo portions of its controversial TSCA evaluation of the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE), and craft risk management rules based on more conservative data, arguing that the Trump-era findings were tainted by “political interference” that President Joe Biden has already ordered the agency to remedy. In a Feb. 26 letter to Acting EPA Administrator Jane Nishida, seven environmental groups led by Safer Chemicals Healthy Families say the agency’s decision to base its Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)...


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