Senate TSCA Draft Expands New Chemical Review Waivers, Sussman Says

Senate Republicans’ newly released draft TSCA reform bill would weaken EPA’s ability to conduct independent reviews of new chemicals, create multiple new avenues to exempt substances from full reviews and add to the program’s already opaque nature, says a key environmentalist and former EPA official. Bob Sussman, a top former EPA official in the Clinton and Obama administrations and now counsel to multiple environmental and public health groups, told Inside TSCA in a Feb. 27 interview that the Senate...