Blitz Of TSCA Actions Leaves Trump EPA With Long List Of Mandatory Duties

The Biden EPA has used its closing months to launch a series of TSCA actions that carry statutory deadlines for further action such as completing chemical risk evaluations and rulemakings -- potentially forcing the second Trump administration to juggle scant resources between that work and its planned rollbacks of completed rules and reviews. Just a month before the Jan. 20 inauguration, EPA designated five chemicals as “high priority” for risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), triggering the...