ACC Warns Against ‘Midnight’ Formaldehyde Review Despite Settlement

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) is warning EPA not to take “midnight actions on formaldehyde” even as the agency prepares to finalize a TSCA settlement that would commit it to competing the review and several others by December, on the eve of a presidential transition widely expected to reverse many of the Biden administration’s toxics policies. ACC wrote a Nov. 4 letter to EPA chemicals chief Michal Freedhoff expressing its “alarm” over an Oct. 23 meeting with “senior” officials at...