Note the federal government new hires to write and support new regulations in the last year and a half. Unfortunately, notice how all the states have to implement these new regulations and the thousands of companies who have to comply aren’t keeping up. Maybe because the latter aren’t able to print money to hire new [...]
Archive for the ‘TSCA Reform’ Category
More Regulations = More Jobs?
Posted in TSCA Reform, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., Regulations on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
EPA BPA Testing Advance Notice
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged action plans, BPA, EHS Strategies Inc., endocrine dispruptors, GLP on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As follow on to its Chemical Action Plan on Bisphenol A (BPA), EPA published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking July 26, 2011, to develop environmental effects and exposure testing. EPA is not addressing human health effects in this notice as there is ongoing testing work already with other agencies. (See a pointed Trevor Butterworth [...]
More TSCA CBI Revocations
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged confidentiality, EHS Strategies Inc., TSCA, TSCA Reform on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
EPA revealed another set of chemical identities in health and safety studies June 8, 2011, here. I think most of them were “voluntary” by companies, but EPA is claiming some were not. Protect what is legitimate and be ready to back up your claim. Provide meaningful generic names. Let it go if you can protect [...]
TSCA Reform: Safe Chemicals Act 2011
Posted in TSCA Reform, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., Safe Chemicals Act, TSCA Reform on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sen. Lautenberg released the 2011 version of the Safe Chemicals Act for TSCA Reform April 14 here. I’ve blogged about it before and posted a summary pdf here. The notable changes I see from last year’s version: – References to mixtures and articles have been deleted here and there. No PMNs by new mixture makers. [...]
TSCA CBI Revocations
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged confidentiality, EHS Strategies Inc., TSCA, TSCA Reform on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
EPA declassified confidentiality claims in a batch of 42 health and safety studies (mostly 8(e) notices of substantial risk) March 24, 2011, following through on their promise of transparency. Certainly there are some old claims out there that are no longer valid (many on what was at the time R&D activity that has either gone [...]
TSCA Reform: “No Harm”?
Posted in TSCA Reform, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., TSCA Reform on March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Proposed bills to reform TSCA have argued to put the burden on chemical manufacturers to prove that there is “reasonable certainty that the substances pose no harm.“ But what does this mean, particularly in light of recent EPA positions on dioxin risk and endocrine disruptor tiered screening? [Covered in Feb 23, 2011, InsideEPA.com's Toxics Regulation [...]
EPA Exercises New TSCA CBI Policy
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged confidentiality, EHS Strategies Inc., TSCA on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
EPA announced it has rejected confidentiality claims for chemical identity of 14 chemicals in health and safety studies under TSCA. The agency is narrowly interpreting TSCA to only allow limited claims of confidential business information (CBI) especially for chemical identity in studies. It remains to be seen if companies can justify some of their claims. [...]
TSCA: “The Blob”?
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged action plans, EHS Strategies Inc., TSCA, TSCA Reform on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Steven Owens, Administrator at the EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, responsible for implementing the Toxic Substances Control Act says TSCA is: “… a kind of blob out there.” [quote from a conference call with the American Bar Association Sept. 16, 2010, reported in Toxics Regulation News Sept. 29, 2010. He was contrasting [...]
TSCA – not as broken as claimed
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged EHS Strategies Inc., HR 5820, Safe Chemicals Act, TSCA Reform on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Environment News Service continues the misinformation that current TSCA law is broken: “Under current policy, the EPA can only call for safety testing after evidence surfaces demonstrating a chemical is dangerous.” WRONG. Here’s what the law says today (highlighting mine): TSCA Section 4. Testing of chemical substances and mixtures (a) Testing requirements If the Administrator [...]
HR 5820 Implications: Chemical Processors
Posted in TSCA Reform, tagged action plans, chemical processors, EHS Strategies Inc., HR 5820, TSCA Reform on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What would TSCA reform bill HR 5820, if it passed as released, do to companies beyond what they have to do today? This blog deals with my best guess at what the implications are for Chemical Processors and follows on from my previous review for chemical manufacturers/importers. This blog also deals only with single chemicals [...]
