Priority Testing List News Today

This quarterly newsletter provides essential updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business.

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI EPA Announces Univar Solutions USA Will Pay $165,000 For FIFRA Violations:EPA announced on April 19, 2021, that Univar Solutions USA, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, will pay a $165,000 penalty for violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) when it failed to label properly its “Woodlife 111” pesticide, which is used as a wood preservative. EPA notes that under FIFRA, “a pesticide is misbranded if, ‘ the labeling accompanying it does not contain di...

PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS Senate Committee Approved Bill that Would Require Guidance on Reducing Firefighter Exposure to PFAS Regulatory Developments EPA Makes Changes to New Chemicals Program Likely to Further Complicate, Slow Reviews EPA Takes Steps to Set PFAS Agenda OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012 EPA Said Interim Rule to Amend TSCA Mercury Reporting Requirements Was Forthcoming Environmental Gro...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA published a Federal Register notice on April 28, 2021, announcing a 30-day comment period on the Toxic Substances Control Act TSCA Interagency Testing Committee’s (ITC) revisions to the Priority Testing List