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EPA Provides Technical Support for Companies Submitting New Chemical Data

On April 25, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of new resources intended to help companies with the requirements described in EPA’s December 2024 final rule governing the review...more

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TCE Rule Takes Effect but Ultimate Fate Is Still Unknown

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The US Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule to regulate trichloroethylene recently went into effect, triggering compliance deadlines for implementing the prohibition and Workplace Chemical Protection Programs even...more

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Trichloroethylene Toxic Substances Control Act Rule: 124 Environmental Organizations Transmit Letter to U.S. Environmental...

124 community, environmental, public health, and other organizations jointly transmitted a March 2025 letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator Zeldin asking that the agency: ...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 Will Review 2024 Rule Amending the TSCA Risk Evaluation Framework Rule

On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its intent to reconsider the May 3, 2024, rule amending the procedural framework rule for conducting risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances...more

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EPA Will Extend Deadline for Reporting Health and Safety Data for 16 Chemicals

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on March 6, 2025, that it plans to issue a rule “soon” to extend the reporting deadline for a rule under Section 8(d) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)...more

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EPA Requests Fifth Circuit to Uphold Asbestos-Ban Rule

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed a brief Feb. 7 with the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold its prior rule banning chrysotile asbestos. The rule was issued by the EPA pursuant to relevant provisions...more

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EPA’s PFAS Enforcement Plan Advances As Two PFAS Reporting Requirements Set To Go Into Effect

EPA Adds Nine New PFAS to List of Chemicals Subject to Toxic Chemical Release Reporting Under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and The Pollution Prevention Act On January 6, 2025, the EPA published a...more

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EPA Finalizes TSCA Risk Management Rules for PCE and TCE (Updated)

Two more chlorinated solvents have been wholly or partially banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Following the May 8, 2024 final rule on methylene chloride,...more

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EPA Delays Effective Date of TCE Risk Management Rule

On January 28, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Act (EPA) issued a final rule delaying the effective date of four rules, including the December 17, 2024, final risk management rule for trichloroethylene (TCE) issued...more

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Environmental Notes - January 2025

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EPA late last year finalized rules banning use of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the United States and certain consumer uses of perchloroethylene (PCE) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Both chlorinated chemical...more

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TCE and PCE Eliminated from Most Uses

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EPA late last year finalized rules banning use of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the United States and certain consumer uses of perchloroethylene (PCE) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Both chlorinated chemical...more

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New 2025 EPA Risk Management Rules on TCE, PCE, and CTC

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently enacted further restrictions for three chlorinated solvents – trichloroethylene (“TCE”), perchloroethylene (“PCE”) and carbon tetrachloride (“CTC”).  On December 17...more

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PFAS Legislative & Regulatory Developments Fourth Quarter 2024

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large class of synthetically created organic chemical compounds that have been at the forefront of complex environmental and legal issues in recent years. While many PFAS...more

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Appellate Court Vacates Requirement that Downstream Entities Reporting by Non-Confidential Accession Number Assert CBI Claims

On December 20, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) petition and granted the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and American Fuel and Petrochemical...more

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EPA Issues Final Rules Prohibiting Uses of Industrial Solvents TCE and PCE

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued final rules banning the majority of uses of two solvents, trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE), under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control...more

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