SACC Urges Major Revisions To TSCA 1,1-DCA Evaluation Despite Deadline

EPA advisors are recommending significant changes to EPA’s draft TSCA evaluation for the solvent 1,1-diochloroethane (1,1-DCA) -- advice that could upend the agency’s ability to meet a judicial Dec. 31 deadline for a final review that it agreed to in a settlement with environmentalists just weeks ago. On Nov. 27, EPA released its Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals’ (SACC) final peer review report , covering both the draft evaluation of 1,1-DCA as well as assessing EPA’s work to date on...