DOJ Brings First Felony TSCA Charges Under Reformed Law

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened what it says is the first felony prosecution under the 2016 TSCA reforms, targeting a New York contractor over alleged lead-paint violations in a first-time test of the reformed law’s enhanced penalties for conduct that “places an individual in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.” In an Aug. 5 indictment , DOJ says contractor Rickey Lynch conducted a 2020 lead paint abatement project at a private home in Freeport, NY, after...