Federal court puts TSCA risk evaluation legal challenge on hold

摘要

A federal court has granted the US EPA’s request to revisit certain aspects of its TSCA risk evaluation for methylene chloride, putting on hold a pivotal legal challenge to how the agency conducts its assessments of existing chemicals. The order means it could be years before a court issues a ruling that settles some of the policy debates over how the EPA conducts its reviews of existing chemicals, despite calls from NGOs for a binding precedent on a faster timeline.