EPA responded to a multi-NGO petition to disclose chemicals used in natural gas fracking under TSCA indirectly: It will propose a section 8(a) rule (a Preliminary Assessment Information Rule or PAIR is my guess) and get health and safety studies under section 8(d). So any chemicals identified in the studies will be disclosed under their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘confidentiality’
No TSCA Fracking Chemical Disclosure – Maybe
Posted in TSCA, tagged confidentiality, TSCA on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
TSCA Confidentiality Revoked
Posted in TSCA, tagged confidentiality, TSCA on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
EPA continues to declassify chemical identities and health and safety studies submitted under TSCA, bragging they now have 542 declassified documents available in the Chemical Data Access Tool. Thirty-five companies have been encouraged to release their confidentiality claims and EPA is putting the pressure on new submissions, as well as requiring up front substantiation in [...]
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 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 Certainly there are some old claims out there that are no longer valid (many on what was at the time R&D activity that has either gone [...]
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: No More Secret Chemicals
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged confidentiality, EHS Strategies Inc., TSCA, TSCA Reform on May 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
EPA effectively closed down any real opportunity to claim chemical identity confidential for new chemicals and for chemicals for which a health, safety or environmental study is submitted under TSCA. See http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-12646.htm The only protection is to keep your company confidential and patent the novel chemical identity (and good luck protecting that). The only possible [...]
TSCA: States Want to Know
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged confidentiality, EHS Strategies Inc., Product Stewardship, TSCA Reform on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Re NY Times article on 13 states wanting Congress to open up TSCA confidential information to them and the public: http://nyti.ms/cP4F7V Yes, it would be good to share information with states that EPA collects under TSCA. The problem is that states are rotten at taking care of confidential information. They are leaky sieves. Of course, [...]
TSCA – Secret Toxics?
Posted in TSCA, TSCA Reform, tagged confidentiality, EHS Strategies Inc., TSCA Reform on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Latest cry for transparency in the Washington Post: “Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under [TSCA] law” http://bit.ly/4zTzjC Yes, there are companies who claim too much information to be secret under TSCA, including the very identity of a chemical. But then there are valid reasons that some chemicals are claimed confidential. When a company [...]
