Lawmakers Urge EPA To Quickly Approve Pending Carbon Nanotube PMNs

Members of Congress from Michigan are asking EPA to approve two TSCA pre-manufacturing notices (PMNs) for the carbon nanotubes (CNT) they say are crucial to electric vehicle (EV) battery production in the state, as the agency continues to struggle with both a backlog of new-chemical applications and efforts to assess nanomaterials. Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Gary Peters (D-MI) and Reps. Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), argued in a recent letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan that the...