Industry Attorney Sees EPA Weighing ‘Hazard’ In Revised TSCA Findings

An industry attorney says EPA appears to be “getting as close as it can” to adopting a hazard-based approach to TSCA evaluations in its new “whole chemical” model for those reviews -- a model environmentalists have long favored -- despite the law’s mandate for the agency to make its decisions based on risk. During a Sept. 14 webinar on chemical sustainability issues hosted by the law firm Keller & Heckman, partner Herb Estreicher argued that EPA’s broad “whole chemical” approach...