Stakeholders Renew Clash Over TSCA Asbestos Limits In OMB Meetings

Update Appended An array of industry and citizen groups are seeking to shape EPA’s pending TSCA risk-management rule for chrysotile asbestos in White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) meetings, with trial lawyers urging “the strongest possible ban” while trade associations are reminding regulators of the chemical’s importance to the chlorine sector. Sources say groups on both sides of that divide have used recent OMB meetings to reiterate their long-running stances on how EPA should regulate asbestos under the...