Advocates Urge EPA Use Of Novel TSCA Authority To Ban Some TCE Uses

摘要

Environmentalists and process safety advocates are urging EPA to use existing authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to ban certain uses of the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE), arguing exposures pose health risks, that safer alternatives are available, and that EPA has waited decades to use TSCA authority to restrict chemical uses that pose unreasonable risks.