Environmentalists Urge EPA To Group Chemicals For TSCA Review

Environmentalists at a recent conference pressed EPA to convert some of its pending TSCA risk evaluations away from reviews of individual chemicals to instead consider entire categories, saying a broader approach could make the program less costly and avoid what one called a “whack-a-mole” model, but faced at least short-term doubts from a top official. During a June 29 panel discussion on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), moderator and former EPA official Bob Sussman -- who now serves as...