EPA Floats Revised PCE Risk Determination

EPA is proposing to revise its 2020 risk findings for the solvent perchloroethylene (perc or PCE) to assert that the “whole chemical” poses unreasonable risk to human health rather than making separate determinations for each of its more than 60 conditions of use, marking the latest step in officials’ plans to eventually apply that model to all 10 Trump-era TSCA evaluations. “EPA is specifically seeking public comment on the draft revision to the risk determination for the risk evaluation where...