EPA Readies Final PBT Rules As Industry Braces For Stringent Limits

December 21, 2020
EPA is poised to issue as soon as Dec. 21 final TSCA risk management rules governing five persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals, with industry bracing for the measures to be significantly stricter than what the agency proposed given recent agency policies adopting tougher approaches than their draft versions. The final PBT rules, which EPA is required to issue by Dec. 22 under section 6(h) of the reformed Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), cleared White House Office of Management and...


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