EPA Eyes OSHA As Model For TSCA Enforcement, Drawing Call For MOU

EPA plans to “learn from” OSHA’s enforcement of workplace chemical-exposure limits as it prepares for the demands of enforcing new TSCA risk management rules, a spokesperson says, while an industry attorney sees a formal memorandum of understanding (MOU) or other partnership between the two agencies as an option to aid those efforts. The spokesperson tells Inside TSCA that deputy EPA toxics chief Mark Hartman told a recent, closed-door American Bar Association (ABA) meeting that the Toxic Substances Control Act...