California Regulators Face Push To Speed Priority Listing Of Tire Chemical

September 21, 2021
Environmental groups and academics are urging California’s toxics office to speed the listing of tires containing the anti-cracking chemical 6PPD as a “priority product” under its green chemistry program, to aid a shift to safer alternatives, including an argument that failing to ban the chemical could violate the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Stakeholders filed a range of comments with the state Department of Toxics Substances Control (DTSC) ahead of its Sept. 17 deadline for input on its “product-chemical profile” for...


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