OMB Begins Review Of Precedent-Setting TSCA Methylene Chloride Rule

The White House has begun reviewing EPA’s final TSCA rule governing use of methylene chloride, teeing up what will be a precedent-setting decision on how the agency will regulate toxic solvents under the law after industry attacked a proposed version as unlawfully strict and arbitrary while environmentalists said it failed to protect exposed communities. EPA sent the final methylene chloride rule for interagency review at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) late on Jan. 24 -- timing...