EPA Delays Heighten TSCA Uncertainty Should Biden Win, Lawyers Say

August 5, 2020
EPA delays in completing pending risk evaluations for nine of the first ten chemicals it is assessing under TSCA are heightening uncertainty for the chemical industry about a possible Biden administration by broadening the scope of potential policy course changes, says a former EPA official now in private practice. Steve Owens, who led EPA’s toxics office at the start of the Obama administration, told an Aug. 5 webinar hosted by the Ohio Chemistry Technology Council and Squire Patton Boggs that...


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