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The FOIA Charade: A Brief Case Study
With the release last month of proposed new EPA regulations on how the agency intends to handle responses to requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), critics have raised concerns about provisions that…
EPA Punts on Meaningful Revisions to TSCA Reporting of Recycled Byproducts
In 2017, at the direction of a provision in the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which fundamentally reformed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA convened a group of…
EPA Proposes Changes to Key Chemical Data Reporting Rule
The U.S. EPA announced today proposed amendments to the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule with an aim "to better support Agency data collection efforts, align reporting with the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for…
EPA Issues First Set of Priority Chemicals for TSCA Risk Assessment
Earlier today, US EPA released the inaugural draft list of 20 "high priority" and 20 "low priority" chemicals for risk evaluation purposes as required by the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).…
Pesticide Enforcement Alert: EPA Targeting On-Line Sales
Consistent with consumer trends and the ever-increasing role of internet sales, U.S. EPA is targeting on-line pesticide sales as an enforcement priority. In a preview of the anticipated April 1 release of preliminary…