Attorneys Say EPA Plan To Redo Evaluations Could Violate Framework Rule

June 11, 2021
An industry attorney says that if EPA follows through on its plan to convert risk findings in Trump-era TSCA chemical evaluations to make a single risk finding for each chemical, it could run afoul of the 2017 rule establishing a “framework” for the evaluations -- which the agency is planning to redo but could struggle to complete in time. “Does EPA have to re-propose their risk evaluation rule? I think absolutely they do,” Herb Estreicher, a partner with the law...


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