Fischer Says EPA TSCA Process ‘Not Sustainable’ As Workload Escalates

The former deputy chief of the Trump EPA’s chemicals office says the way it conducted the first 10 TSCA chemical evaluations is “not sustainable” in the long term, warning that staff constraints and the structure of the 2016 law meant officials had little opportunity to plan for its requirement last year to double the number of chemicals under review. “One of the things I was working on was how do we create a new risk evaluation 2.0 [because] what we...