Stakeholders See EPA’s ‘Tiered’ TSCA Data Rule Aiding Pre-Prioritization

An industry attorney and an environmentalist say EPA’s planned model TSCA reporting rule that would set “tiered” requirements for chemicals at various stages of evaluation, including before the prioritization process starts, could help close persistent data gaps in the evaluation process -- but also that the agency might not be nimble enough to execute it. In recent interviews, an environmentalist and a former Trump EPA chemicals official both told Inside TSCA that the agency’s July 14 announcement of the...