Environmentalists Urge EPA To Demand Analytical Standards Under TSCA

Environmental groups are pushing EPA to embrace a broad reading of TSCA that gives it authority to require industry to develop and submit new analytical standards that regulators and stakeholders could use to test for chemicals in the environment, after a private meeting with top officials raised concerns about the agency’s view of its power. “Based on recent discussions, we are concerned that EPA may believe that it lacks authority under section 4 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)...