EPA To ‘Explore’ Boosting Collaboration On New Chemicals’ Water Effects

EPA is promising drinking water groups that it will “explore ways to enhance collaboration” on its assessment of new chemicals’ impacts on drinking water after utilities and regulators urged it to tighten three blocks of TSCA significant new use rules (SNURs) to limit possible contamination from the substances they govern. But the agency stopped short of ordering new toxicity tests or making substantive changes to the final SNURs themselves, which were originally proposed during the Trump administration, when it published...