EDF Blasts New ACC TSCA Agenda Despite Call For EPA Budget Boost

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is welcoming the American Chemistry Council (ACC)’s new embrace of a budget increase for the TSCA program but pushing back against industry’s call to tie any such boost to rollbacks of strict chemical policies, arguing that claims of agency action stifling innovation and costing jobs are at odds with the sector’s own economic data. Although EDF “agree[s] with the ACC’s call for more funding for EPA to properly implement [the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)],...