ACC Targets TSCA ‘Whole Chemical’ Approach As EPA Doubles Down

Previewing potential legal challenges, the chemical industry is warning that EPA’s “whole chemical” approach to identifying risk in draft revisions to its Trump-era TSCA evaluation of the flame retardant cluster HBCD is legally and procedurally flawed, just as the agency is renewing its commitment to the broad new method in proposed findings on pigment violet 29 (PV29). In March 4 comments on EPA’s reworked Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) HBCD evaluation, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) says the Biden administration’s...