The chemicals industry is mobilizing to push for changes to the major bipartisan federal toxics law it lobbied for and championed eight years ago.
American Chemistry Council President and CEO Chris Jahn said the trade association “would support surgical tweaks that would improve the implementation” of the Toxic Substances Control Act.
“We’re not interested in reopening the whole thing,” he added. “It took 10 years to get that bill done. We can’t wait 10 years to fix it.”
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EPA’s top chemicals official, Assistant Administrator of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Michal Freedhoff, however, said “those conversations are quite premature.”
