EPA Eyes Third-Party Chemical Safety Criteria For ‘Sustainable’ Purchasing

EPA is inviting private groups to submit applications for the toxics office to add their standards and labeling programs to those officials use to identify products made with safer chemicals as “sustainable” for federal procurement, alongside other environmental metrics including climate safety. The agency called for submissions to its “Recommendations for Federal Purchasing” in a Nov. 2 Federal Register notice , asking interested groups to submit ecolabel options and other standards by Jan. 1, and named “safer chemicals (e.g.,...