EPA’s Chemical Risk Analysis Strategy Under White House Review

The EPA’s latest strategy describing how it would determine whether chemicals are so risky they must be regulated has been sent to a White House office for clearance.

The Environmental Protection Agency submitted its proposed rule, Procedures for Chemical Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), to the Office of Information and Regulatory Review (OIRA) on Monday.

The action is part of a plan the EPA laid out to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in March when the agency successfully persuaded that court to pause litigation over the chemical risk evaluation rule ...