Industry, Nonprofits Back EPA’s Goal to Get More Chemical Data

Industry and nonprofit groups support—to varying degrees—an EPA idea that would require a wide array of companies to submit extensive chemical data to help inform the agency’s regulatory and other decisions.

Chemical manufacturers, distributors, water utilities, joined environmental and community groups in submitting comments on an idea that the Environmental Protection Agency floated last month.

The EPA is considering developing a strategy and a regulation to collect chemical use, exposure, and other data to determine what chemicals warrant scrutiny, whether individual chemicals are too risky, and, if so, how to regulate them.

Such data could include health studies, workplace or ...