Bloomberg Law
May 20, 2020, 5:36 PM

EPA to Miss Its Deadline for Chemical Evaluations, Wheeler Says

Stephen Lee
Stephen Lee
Reporter
Pat Rizzuto
Pat Rizzuto
Reporter

The EPA won’t meet its statutory deadline for releasing final evaluations for 10 chemicals by June 22, agency chief Andrew Wheeler told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

“I believe we will get at least two of the 10 done and release the remainder by the end of summer,” Wheeler, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Wednesday.

Wheeler referred to a deadline in the 2016 Toxic Substances Control Act amendments. The amended law required the agency—for the first time ever—to examine the potential for chemicals made and used in ...

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