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 Groups Seek EPA Actions on Phosphogypsum and
Process Wastewater from Phosphoric Acid Production
EPA Announced Temporary Regulatory Relief for PIP (3:1)
Prohibition, Opened Broader Review of Five TSCA PBT Risk Management
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The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), enacted in 1976, authorizes the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the manufacture or importation of new and existing chemicals. TSCA’s regulations include reporting, record-keeping, and testing requirements. TSCA’s scope is very broad – reaching any “person” who manufactures, imports, processes, distributes in commerce, uses or disposes of a chemical substance, regardless of the industry sector. In June 2016, Congress enacted the Lautenberg Act, which sharpened TSCA’s tools for assessment and regulation of both existing and new chemical substances in the marketplace. Consequently, the Trump Administration was the first administration with the opportunity to most fully implement the 2016 Amendments. In the view of its critics, Trump’s EPA exercised its discretion often to the benefit of chemical companies, including a narrower scope for
By Shereen Hashem
Apr 16, 2021
OSHA has extended its comment period for the proposed rule to update the agency’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to May 19, 2021, according to a press release.
OSHA published a Federal Register Notice to extend the submission of public comments by 30 days to allow stakeholders interested in the proposition the time needed to collect information and data necessary for comment. OSHA expects the HCS update will increase worker safety and protection, reduce chemical-related incidence, occupational illnesses and injuries by improving information on Safety Data Sheets and labels for hazardous chemicals.
The hazard classification aspect would provide specific criteria for classification. Labels would be required to include a harmonized signal word, pictogram and hazard statement for each hazard class and category.
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