Former Deputy Sees Biden EPA Embracing ‘Stovepipe’ TSCA Approach

A former top Trump EPA official says the agency’s plan to “surgically” revisit parts of the 10 completed TSCA chemical evaluations while moving forward with risk management rules “appears to be doubling down” on the prior administration’s evaluation framework, setting up a possible clash over environmentalists’ claims that it is unlawful. Environmental groups have long attacked the Trump administration’s decision to evaluate risks from chemicals’ conditions of use separately, rather than through a “holistic” lens that would consider cumulative risks...