Few aspects of the new TSCA law have been at more risk than the section 5 premanufacture notice (PMN) program, which provides critical safeguards against unsafe new chemicals entering commerce. The amended law put considerably more teeth in this program, but from day one, the chemical industry has sought to block EPA from implementing the tougher review process that the law required.
Daniel Rosenberg
Groups call on EPA’s Beck to sit out chemical rulemaking
Today, five environmental health groups called on the EPA Office of General Counsel to require Dr. Nancy Beck, Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, to recuse herself from ongoing rulemaking on proposed bans of unsafe uses of three dangerous toxic chemicals.
Congressional Hearing to Focus on How to Protect the Public from Toxic Chemicals
Congressional hearing will examine how the EPA should begin the task of reviewing tens of thousands of chemicals in widespread use