Attorney Says TSCA Will ‘Supersede’ OSHA On Worker Chemical Safeguards

An industry attorney says EPA’s TSCA program appears poised to “supersede” and even “replace” OSHA as the primary regulator of workplace chemical exposures, pointing to both the precedent set by the toxics program’s proposal on methylene chloride and broad statutory language that he argues goes much further than OSHA’s authorizing law. In a recent “working paper” for the free-market Washington Legal Foundation, Keller and Heckman attorney Lawrence Halprin writes that under the reformed Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA “will...