Judge Blocks Industry Bid To Ease TSCA Formaldehyde Settlement Deadline

A federal district judge has rejected a chemical manufacturer’s request to intervene in litigation setting deadlines for EPA to complete 20 overdue TSCA risk evaluations, ending the firm’s bid to block an imminent settlement that would require its final formaldehyde review by the end of December -- a timeline that industry has warned will improperly tie the incoming Trump administration to a flawed review. In an Oct. 7 order , Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the...