EPA Says PFAS Notice Fulfilled TSCA Mandate To ‘Initiate’ Rulemaking

EPA is countering environmentalists’ novel claim that TSCA requires it to quickly regulate PFAS in fluorinated plastics as a “significant risk” to human health, arguing that the provision only requires it to “initiate” that process -- a step it says it took by seeking new data on the contamination, even though a final rule could still be far off. While the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) gives EPA just 180 days to “initiate applicable action” under any of three other...