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Companies and unions need clearer answers to questions arising as two federal agencies now regulate workplace safety for ...
The Environmental Protection Agency is more quickly deciding if new chemicals can be made, according to the agency’s top ...
The EPA’s latest decision to review its own 2024 ban on chrysotile asbestos reignites a regulatory tug of war that has ...
Former President Joe Biden's administration banned "ongoing uses" of the last form of asbestos permitted in the United States.
Chrysotile asbestos is found in products like brake blocks, asbestos diaphragms and sheet gaskets and was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was broadened in 2016. When the ban ...
The agency said the Toxic Substances Control Act requires it to evaluate a chemical's risk and the consequences of restricting it. Now, officials will look at whether parts of the ban “went beyond ...
The move signals a shift from the Biden administration’s approach to regulating harmful chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a sweeping law aimed at protecting public health.
Opinion Opinion: Is it time to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act . . . again? Some 9 years after TSCA was updated, it’s clear it isn’t working—in part because some prior amendments left ...
As a result, polymers have largely evaded regulation. For example, polymers are exempt from the major toxics acts: Toxic Substances Control Act in the U.S. and REACH in the E.U.
“The Toxic Substances Control Act requires EPA to give particular consideration to groups of people who are either more exposed to a chemical than the general population, or more susceptible to ...
On World Children’s Day, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan of Virginia and Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts reintroduced the Get Toxic Substances Out of Schools Act of 2024 to remove toxic ...
Experts say the precedent-setting court decision backing a Toxic Substances Control Act citizen petition could spur other bids to force new chemical rules. A first-of-its-kind ruling on the health ...