Former EPA Chemicals Deputy Hopes Court Addresses TSCA Risk Standard

Former EPA deputy chemicals chief David Fischer expects the 5th Circuit to vacate and remand the Biden-era TSCA risk management rule banning many uses of the common solvent methylene chloride after recent oral arguments, though he hopes the court will address how EPA should define the law’s threshold “unreasonable risk” standard. “I suspect that the 5th Circuit will vacate and remand,” Fischer, who served in the first Trump administration, tells Inside TSCA in an interview after June 3 oral...