Court Deadlines Proposed for EPA Verdicts on 22 Chemical Rules

Deadlines by which the EPA would have to complete 22 overdue chemical risk evaluations were proposed in two settlements submitted to a federal district court on Tuesday.

If finalized, the proposed deadlines, would require the Environmental Protection Agency to determine by the end of this year and over the next two years whether those chemicals have so much potential to harm people or the environment that companies’ uses of them must be restricted in some ways.

Statutory changes made in 2016 to the US’ primary commercial chemicals law required the EPA to start routinely examining the potential health and environmental ...