PRHE Says TSCA Evaluation Rule Fails To Protect Vulnerable Communities

The influential Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) at the University of California San Francisco is attacking EPA’s final TSCA “framework” rule governing risk evaluations of existing chemicals over what the group says are its lacking protections for vulnerable populations and low bar for agency science, in a preview of possible litigation. While PRHE welcomes the April 23 rule overall, writing in a blog post that the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) framework “includes important improvements in...