3M, Boeing Among Companies Expected to Pay EPA Chemical Fee (1)

3M Co., S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., and Boeing Co. are among dozens of companies that the EPA expects to pay a combined chemical oversight bill of more than $25 million, according a list published Wednesday.

The list updates a preliminary version that the Environmental Protection Agency published in January, and significantly reduces the numbers of companies that jointly may have to pay the EPA $1.35 million per-chemical fee for 20 chemical risk evaluations it will carry out over the next three years.

The conclusions the agency reaches about the risks those chemicals pose to people’s health and to ...