Interview - TSCA

Key Republican Criticizes EPA Over Inadequate TSCA Implementation

Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), a top House Republican and one of the lead authors of the revised toxics law, is criticizing EPA’s failure to issue orders to force additional industry data and testing of chemicals and its handling of new chemical applications, signaling bipartisan criticism over the landmark 2016 law’s implementation. “If there's one surprise, it’s that EPA has not used section 4 information gathering authority” under the Toxic Substances Control Act, Shimkus said in a June 24 keynote address...

Owens Sees Lose-Lose In EPA’s Stances In Landmark Fluoride Trial

Former toxics chief Steve Owens, who helped EPA gear up for reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), says the stances the agency has taken in the landmark trial over regulating fluoride could result in a lose-lose scenario for the agency as it scrambles to evaluate risks from existing chemicals “If they win [the litigation] and the petition is dismissed, they have set such an incredibly high bar for what constitutes an ‘unreasonable risk’ that they may have laid...

ACC’s Walls Sees Costs But Reasons For Confidence In TSCA Program

A key chemical industry official see reasons for confidence that EPA’s efforts to enhance its oversight of industrial chemicals after Congress’ 2016 reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) will increase public confidence, despite environmentalists’ charges EPA’s approach has failed to improve such confidences, has been industry leaning and is, in some cases, unlawful. Nevertheless, Mike Walls, vice president for regulatory and technical affairs at American Chemistry Council (ACC), tells Inside TSCA in an exclusive interview that the...

Environmentalists Warn EPA’s TSCA Adoption Fails To Restore Confidence

Environmentalists are warning that the Trump EPA’s approach to implementing Congress’ 2016 reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is short sighted and is not restoring public confidence in consumer products containing chemicals or in the agency’s regulation of industrial chemicals -- key industry goals for the law. “I worked on the legislative campaign to reform TSCA and the investment of the public, the NGOs that worked so hard, the members of Congress who worked so hard on crafting...

Dunn Defends EPA's Split Approach To Weighing TSCA 'Legacy' Uses

EPA toxics chief Alex Dunn is defending the agency’s plan to conduct supplemental risk evaluations from legacy uses of asbestos and other substances after completing the initial evaluations, rejecting calls from environmentalists who say the agency should adhere to the appellate ruling that requires such analysis by expanding on the ongoing evaluations. In an exclusive interview with Inside TSCA , Dunn said that evaluating legacy uses in supplemental evaluations of some of the first ten substances the agency is assessing...

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