Court Weighs TSCA ‘Serious Risk’ Mandate In PFAS Contamination Suit

Environmentalists are asking a federal district court to hold that TSCA requires EPA to quickly regulate PFAS contamination in fluorinated plastics independent from its grant of a rulemaking petition on the subject, in a novel test of the law’s mandate for the agency to address chemicals that threaten “serious or widespread harm” on an expedited schedule. Allowing EPA to avoid litigation under the widespread-harm provisions in section 4(f) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) simply because it is in...