Coming Rules to Offer Insight on EPA’s Chemical Control Methods

Chemical controls the EPA plans to propose this year will illustrate strategies it thinks will be able to manage risks, how it defines essential uses, and ways it examines chemicals that might substitute for ones it deems riskier, agency officials and an attorney said Tuesday.

The Environmental Protection Agency expects to issue by year’s end at least one final and six proposed rules controlling chemicals it decided could pose unreasonable risk, Brian Symmes, acting director of the agency’s Existing Chemicals Branch, said during a chemicals conference.

The first-of-their-kind rulemakings are mandated through requirements laid out in the Toxic Substances ...