EPA Faces Renewed Calls To Apply TSCA ‘Natural’ Exemption To Biofuels

An industry attorney is pressing EPA to step up its efforts to accelerate TSCA reviews of new biofuels by addressing the sector’s long-standing argument that the agency is “unnecessarily” subjecting them to the pre-manufacture notice (PMN) process through a too-narrow reading of the law’s exemption for “natural” substances. “Notwithstanding EPA’s best efforts, its willingness to streamline [the PMN review process], I suspect that it will still be the case that many biofuels will be considered new chemicals and will have...