Trade Groups Press EPA To Loosen Workplace TCE Limits In Final Rule

Chemical-sector groups are urging EPA and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to ease the strict workplace exposure standard that the agency proposed in its TSCA rule for trichloroethylene (TCE), by either easing the final regulation or allowing for greater flexibility on enforcement. A more lenient approach is not only reasonable but better fits EPA’s newly revised “framework” rule governing Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Chlorine panel argued in a written presentation...