EPA's Waste Office Rejects Industry Push To Suspend TCE Cleanup Policy

摘要

EPA's waste office is rejecting an appeal from chemical manufacturers to suspend an Obama-era guidance for assessing sites contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE) for risks of cardiac birth defects, while also finding no foundation for industry's claims that it has incurred higher cleanup costs as a result of the guidance. Office of Land & Emergency Management (OLEM) Deputy Assistant Administrator Patrick Davis, who was named to the position several months ago by the Trump administration, says in a July 26 letter to the American Chemistry Council (ACC) that OLEM will maintain its 2014 guidance as well as related regional office memoranda, declining ACC's request to suspend those policies.