OMB Clears PBT Rule Revisions Days Before Oct. 31 Enforcement Deadline

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has completed its review of EPA’s final TSCA rule reworking Trump-era limits on a pair of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals, just days before the agency’s enforcement stay on one of the two is set to expire and a week after a federal appellate court resumed litigation on it. OMB approved the final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) rule for the flame retardants decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) and phenol, isopropylated phosphate...