Industry, Partisan Splits Complicate TSCA Reform As Panels Draft Bills

Industry groups pressing for legislative reforms to TSCA are divided over the scope of any reforms Congress should undertake and how new chemicals should be regulated, potentially complicating early efforts to overhaul the 2016 law as lawmakers step up their so-far bipartisan efforts to reach an agreement. In addition, some industry sources worry the heated political environment could make it difficult to reach a bipartisan agreement that will be essential in enacting any new legislation. House and Senate committees are...