CHPAC Proposal Seen As Common Ground For TSCA Prioritization Plans

Environmentalists are broadly backing new recommendations from EPA’s Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) for the agency to rework and strengthen its process of prioritizing chemicals for TSCA evaluation, signaling a possible consensus from stakeholders on how the agency should proceed. Sources at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Environmental Protection Network (EPN) of EPA alumni tell Inside TSCA that they see broad agreement between their groups’ agendas for prioritization and CHPAC’s recent letter on the subject...