Two of the EPA’s core regulations for implementing the nation’s amended chemicals law face early legal challenges from more than a dozen environmental, labor, and health organizations.
Industry is once again cheering Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, this time for clearing a backlog of some 600 chemicals that had previously been waiting for approval. But environmental experts worry that Pruitt is using the chemical backlog as a smokescreen to streamline the agency’s chemical approval process at the behest of industry — and at the expense of public health and safety.
Information about chemicals made in and imported into the U.S. since 2012 should be publicly available at the end of May, an EPA spokesman told Bloomberg BNA April 20.
The EPA must define terms like “best available science” mandated by its chemicals statute so the regulated community can understand how the agency will analyze the risks of chemicals companies make or use, trade associations said.
ANN ARBOR, MI - From a public health standpoint, there's a lot at stake in how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decides to implement new rules and regulations for toxic chemicals in the coming years.
Researchers say federal agencies use highly inaccurate tests to estimate exposure to BPA—findings that extend to multiple other harmful chemicals that get into our bodies
The Ohio River Valley, like the rest of the U.S., stands at a crossroads of energy and industry, facing decisions about whether to turn toward a future of renewable energy and a green jobs revolution or one of shale gas and plastics.
American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.
