Attorney Questions EPA’s Translation Of TSCA ‘Unreasonable Risk’ Bar To Exposure Limits

An industry attorney says EPA has used its recent TSCA risk management proposals to translate “unreasonable risk” -- a key term in the statute that neither Congress nor the agency has defined -- into strict workplace exposure limits, creating for the first time a “bright line” standard that employers and others could question in comments on the new rules. During a June 22 webinar hosted by the law firm Keller and Heckman, David Fischer -- a former Trump EPA toxics...