Freedhoff Aims To Balance TSCA Fenceline Screenings With Rules’ ‘Urgency’

Chemicals chief Michal Freedhoff told EPA science advisors on March 15 that the agency see its screenings of Trump-era TSCA evaluations for fenceline community exposures as a difficult balancing act, where insufficient action could leave out vulnerable communities while formally supplementing the documents will delay regulations by a year or more. In her opening address to the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals’ (SACC) three-day peer review meeting of the fenceline screening approach, Freedhoff said that while she believes there were...