EPA Continues Daily Risk-Determination Rewrites With Methylene Chloride

July 1, 2022
EPA is proposing for the third time in three days revised risk findings for a substance it evaluated during the Trump administration, this time targeting the solvent methylene chloride -- which chemicals chief Michal Freedhoff recently said will be the subject of her office’s next proposed TSCA risk management rule. In a Federal Register notice slated for publication July 5, EPA proposes revising its 2020 risk findings for methylene chloride to assert that the “whole chemical” poses unreasonable risk...


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