EPA Faces Renewed Pressure To Overhaul TSCA Evaluations

Industry groups, environmentalists and EPA’s own science advisors are raising separate attacks on the TSCA program’s approach to chemical risk evaluations under both the Trump and Biden administrations, laying out calls for it to either strengthen or ease the reviews in both litigation over risk-management rules and comments on a host of pending actions. In recent weeks, stakeholders on all sides have raised new attacks on EPA’s Trump-era Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) evaluation of asbestos as part of their...