Chemical Reviews Are Faster, But More Effort Planned, EPA Says

New chemicals are being reviewed by the EPA more quickly in recent months than previously, but more progress can be made, agency and industry officials said Tuesday.

For the next two years, the highest priority of the EPA’s new chemicals office is to have substances reviewed within deadlines mandated by the Toxic Substances Control Act and its implementing regulations, Denise Keehner, director of the agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, said at a chemicals conference.

The Environmental Protection Agency has doubled the number of new chemical decisions it’s made in recent months, said Madison Le, director of OPPT’s New ...