‘Woefully’ Short-Handed EPA Could Face Wave Of TSCA Correction Filings

March 24, 2022
Industry attorneys are warning that EPA’s “woefully” understaffed toxics office will soon see a flurry of requests to correct entries on its TSCA inventory of chemicals in commerce after the agency suddenly announced it will stop accepting new applications by April 26, while a trade group is preparing a detailed “rebuttal” of the plan. “Why now? We’re coming out of a pandemic, EPA is woefully short on staff and then this is going to happen,” Tom Berger, a partner with...


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