Auto Workers Deem TSCA New-Chemicals Review Rule Unlawfully Opaque

The United Auto Workers (UAW) is arguing that the Biden-era TSCA framework rule intended to align EPA’s procedures for evaluating risks associated with new-chemical applications is unlawfully opaque, keeping unions and their representatives out of the process, and that EPA failed to respond to unions’ comments on how to address the issue. UAW says in its opening brief in consolidated litigation known as Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) et al. v. EPA that it “joined with other Unions...