Industry Attorney ‘Anticipates’ EPA Will Revoke TSCA Exemptions For PFAS

An industry attorney says EPA “probably” intends to revoke previously granted TSCA exemptions from new-chemicals review for hundreds of PFAS intended to be produced or processed in low volumes -- a move environmentalists have long urged but which trade groups and law firms representing them say would violate the law. Since 2021, the Biden EPA has sought to unwind past policies allowing per- or polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) to enter commerce through the low volume exemption (LVE) and low release and...