Chemical Makers Ask EPA to Fix, Not Drop, Corrections Policy (1)

A coalition of chemical manufacturers asked the EPA on Friday to work with industry to revise—not revoke as planned—the agency’s policy allowing companies to correct the precise descriptions of chemicals they can legally manufacture or import.

“To eliminate the correction process is to ignore a critically important fact in the industrial chemical community,” the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) New Chemicals Coalition wrote the agency.

“Chemical identities can be subject to legitimate questions, and the industrial chemical community needs a process to answer these questions and get the chemical identity right,” wrote the coalition, established by Bergeson and Campbell PC ...