EPA Finalizes Three Trump-Era SNUR Proposals

EPA is finalizing TSCA significant new use rules (SNURs) for substances subject to three premanufacture notices (PMNs) almost a year after proposing the limits, while rejecting calls from an animal-welfare group to use the rules to bolster non-animal testing of new chemicals. EPA finalized the SNURs in an Aug. 16 Federal Register notice , addressing “chemical substances which were the subject of PMNs P-18-399, P-18-400, and P-20-68.” The SNURs identify significant new uses for each chemical, and require companies...