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EPA Punts on Meaningful Revisions to TSCA Reporting of Recycled Byproducts

In 2017, at the direction of a provision in the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which fundamentally reformed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA convened a group of…

EPA Proposes Changes to Key Chemical Data Reporting Rule

The U.S. EPA announced today proposed amendments to the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule with an aim "to better support Agency data collection efforts, align reporting with the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for…

EPA Issues First Set of Priority Chemicals for TSCA Risk Assessment

Earlier today, US EPA released the inaugural draft list of 20 "high priority" and 20 "low priority" chemicals for risk evaluation purposes as required by the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).…

Prop 65 Coming to New York ....?

Newly proposed legislation in New York, announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the release of his Executive Budget late last month, would look an awful lot like California's "Proposition 65" program ... but, presumably,…

EPA Rule Addressing Methylene Chloride Risks Stalled by "Shutdown" ... While Activists File First "New TSCA" Court Challenge for EPA Failure to Act

During confirmation hearings before Congress last week, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler indicated that a long-awaited EPA rule to restrict consumer and commercial uses of methylene chloride as a paint and…