Industry Fears TSCA Rule Makes Manufacturer-Requested Reviews ‘Unusable'

Industry officials at two recent events have argued that EPA’s proposed changes to its “framework” rule governing TSCA chemical evaluations undermine the law's process for manufacturers to seek reviews of their own products and will cut the number of requests dramatically, with one speaker saying they will be "unusable" under the new approach. At both an industry-organized Nov. 29 discussion of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) "framework" proposal and a Nov. 17 environmental roundtable hosted by the Small Business...