Impacts of Staff, Funding Cuts at EPA Top Chemicals Concern (1)

Attorneys and scientists who disagree on fundamental ways the EPA oversees commercially used chemicals agree on one issue: budget cuts proposed for the agency could undermine its ability to effectively regulate those compounds.

Lawyers and other professionals representing commercial, labor, and environmental health perspectives on chemical policies spoke at a conference Wednesday discussing the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to implement the 2016 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) amendments.

Many at the event recalled the hopes in 2016 that the revised law would better protect the public, boost confidence in the regulatory system, and offer industry certainty as the EPA routinely ...