Industry Eyes Reworked TSCA Evaluations To Lay Groundwork For Lawsuits

Attorneys are urging industry officials to use EPA’s revisions to Trump-era chemical evaluations as a second chance to build administrative records that can support eventual legal challenges against the agency’s risk determinations, even though they cannot challenge the evaluations directly and must wait for risk-management rules based on them. EPA’s plan to use notice-and-comment processes as it reworks the Trump administration’s 10 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk evaluations represents a fresh opportunity for industry to build favorable records for...