Critics Hope Biden EOs Override Trump Push For OMB To Review IRIS Drafts

The Trump administration’s controversial 11th-hour push to again subject EPA chemical assessments to White House review appears to have stalled when a key memo went unsigned, though critics also hope the policy will be overridden by President Joe Biden’s early executive order (EO) on modernizing regulatory review. In a Jan. 8 memo , obtained by Inside TSCA , then-Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Paul Ray directed then-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to place chemical assessments from the agency’s...