EPA Eyes Annual CDR Reporting, TRI Improvements To Bolster TSCA Data

EPA’s newly crafted strategic plan for its toxics office details several policy changes aimed at gathering more information more quickly to support its TSCA risk evaluations, including new uses of Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data and an “option” for companies to file chemical data reporting (CDR) materials annually instead of every four years. The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics’ (OPPT) Data Gathering and Analysis Division (DGAD) set out those and other priorities as part of OPPT’s fiscal year 2021-23...