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EPA Seeks Stakeholders to Participate as Small Entity Representatives on Small Business Advocacy Review Panels on Asbestos and...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on August 8, 2025, that it seeks self-nominations from small businesses, governments, and not-for-profits to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SER) providing...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

TSCA Section 6(a) Risk Evaluation Rules Update: Reconsideration of the PCE Rule

The US EPA reopened its TSCA Section 6(a) rule for Perchloroethylene (PCE) on July 30, 2025. The agency is seeking public comment as part of its reconsideration of the rule until August 29, 2025. In addition to the potential...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Seeks Comment as It Reconsiders PCE Risk Management Rule

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on July 30, 2025, that it seeks public comment to inform its reconsideration of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regulation for perchloroethylene (PCE). 90 Fed....more

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EPA Releases Draft Charge Questions for SACC Meeting on Phthalates and Memorandum on Proposed Refinement for Estimating DBP Skin...

On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of the draft charge questions for discussion at the upcoming Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) meeting to review all...more

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Wrap-Up of Federal and State Chemical Regulatory Developments, June 2025

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI - TSCA Section 21 Petition Seeks Reconsideration Of 2024 Rule Regarding Procedures For Chemical Risk Evaluation: On May 15, 2025, the Center for Environmental Accountability (CEA) filed a petition under...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

EPA’s Path Forward on TSCA Becomes Clearer

After a period of uncertainty, how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to revise its implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) during the second Trump administration is coming into focus...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Proposes to Extend Certain Compliance Deadlines to Ensure Lab Compliance with Final Methylene Chloride Risk Management Rule

On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule that would extend certain compliance dates in the final risk management rule for methylene chloride under the Toxic Substances Control...more

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U.S. EPA Announces Retainment of MCLs for PFOA and PFOS and Intent to Rescind and Reconsider MCLs for Other PFAS

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) announced today that it will keep the current Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) set by the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for perfluorooctanoic acid...more

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The Future of EPA's Risk Management Program May Be Found in History

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced it would reconsider the 2024 Risk Management Program ("RMP") rule....more

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EPA Announces Reevaluation of the TSCA Risk Evaluation Framework Rule

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Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Biden administration finalized amendments to the procedural framework rule for conducting risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that...more

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EPA Reopens Comment Period on Proposed Risk Management Rule for PV29

On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is reopening the comment period for the January 2025 proposed rule to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by...more

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Update RE: EPA’s Proposed PFAS Rule Comment Period

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In 2024, the EPA proposed a PFAS rule with a January 17, 2025, comment deadline in response to questions from the industry regarding the effective date of supplier notifications for mixtures or trade name products containing...more

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Wrap-Up of Federal and State Chemical Regulatory Developments, February 2025

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI - EPA Releases Final Risk Evaluation For DINP, Finding Unreasonable Risk Of Injury To Human Health When Workers Are Exposed Under Four Conditions Of Use (COU): On January 14, 2025, EPA released the final...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Proposes Risk Management Rule to Protect Workers from Inhalation Exposure to PV29

On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by Color Index (C.I.) Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) under its...more

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The Climate Report | First Quarter 2024

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted much anticipated climate-related disclosure rules....more

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Next On EPA’s Chopping Block: Trichloroethylene

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The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a risk management rule as part of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that would ban the production, processing and distribution of trichloroethylene (TCE) for all uses....more

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EPA Releases Additional Data on Ongoing Uses of Chrysotile Asbestos

On March 17, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released additional data related to the proposed risk management rule for chrysotile asbestos for public comment. 88 Fed. Reg. 16389. According to EPA’s March...more

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Attorneys General Dispute the Environmental Justice Benefits of EPA’s Proposed Rule “Safer Communities by Chemical Accident...

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Led by Oklahoma, twelve State Attorneys General submitted their written comment to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention (SCCAP) rule. The SCCAP proposes...more

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Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Process Safety: EPA Proposes Risk Management Program Rule Amendments (Updated)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to further amend its Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (RMP) rules and has issued a proposed rule. 87 Fed. Reg. 53556 (August 31, 2022). The proposed rule would...more

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Proposed Rule to Designate Two PFAS Chemicals as Hazardous Substances Stands to Up the Ante for Site Remediation

EPA released a pre-publication notice of its long-anticipated proposed rule to designate certain PFOS and PFOA as CERCLA (Superfund) hazardous substances. CERCLA hazardous substances designation would fulfill an important...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Will Propose Revisions to RMP Rule to Enhance Chemical Safety

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on August 19, 2022, that it will propose revisions to the Risk Management Program (RMP) rule to protect further vulnerable communities from chemical accidents,...more

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Risk Management Program/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Announces Proposed Revisions to Accidental Release...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on August 18th announced a prepublication proposed rule that would amend the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (“RMP”) regulations....more

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EPA Proposes Rule to Ban Chrysotile Asbestos Using TSCA Risk Management Rule

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EPA has again taken action to ban certain asbestos-containing products in the United States under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) section 6(a) by a proposed rule published in the Federal Register April 12, 2022. ...more

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The SEC's Proposed Climate-Risk Disclosure Rule – What You Need to Know Now

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Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its much-anticipated and ground-breaking proposed rule for the disclosure of climate-related risks. “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related...more

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Proposed amendments to risk management program rules

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Ohio EPA has provided notice of proposed amendments to its Accidental Release Prevention Program/Risk Management Program rules, which are found in Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3745-104. Many of Ohio EPA’s proposed changes...more

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