Overview
Chemical Watch quoted Michael Boucher in an article titled, "US EPA 'freezes' TSCA TCE rule, hints at regulatory changes." The article discusses how US EPA has placed a freeze on the effective date of the TSCA risk management rule for trichloroethylene (TCE) and signaled that the new administration may revisit the rule.
Speaking about US EPA's recent activities and the freeze, Boucher says that US EPA's recent activities "hint that more rulemaking is on the way to address compliance dates or other requirements in the TCE rule. However, pausing the rule's effective date is ultimately an opening, and not a final move, by the agency." Boucher also commented on the pending litigation challenging the TCE rule saying, "It would not surprise me for the Trump EPA to ask for the court to remand the rule to the agency, for the industry petitioners in the case to not oppose such a request, and for EPA to rework the existing rule to address its own concerns, which may well match or resemble the industry petitioners' concerns."
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