Little-Used TSCA Data-Gathering Power Could Boost EPA Asbestos Review

Warning that the “good days are over,” an industry attorney is predicting that the Biden EPA will respond to last month’s landmark court ruling ordering the agency to require companies to report uses or imports of asbestos by invoking a little-used TSCA authority to gather data on asbestos and possibly a host of other high-priority chemicals. Herb Estreicher, a partner with the law firm Keller and Heckman, recently said that since EPA is under a court order to amend its...