Environmentalists Say EPA Must Add Fenceline Protections To 1-BP Rule

Environmental groups are arguing that TSCA requires EPA to incorporate protections for “fenceline communities” near chemical sites into its proposed risk management rule for the solvent 1-bromopropane (1-BP), amid broader claims that both the policy and the risk evaluation it is based on are unlawfully weak. Four environmental groups signed joint comments on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) 1-BP proposal, renewing long-standing arguments that EPA is improperly focusing its TSCA rules on worker safety while sidelining dangers that fenceline...