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On September 27, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule extending the submission deadline for the 2024 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) from September 30...more
On May 3, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Final Rule that amends the risk evaluation process for chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the steps chemical manufacturers and...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching and important final rule (Rule) on Oct. 11, 2023, requiring comprehensive reporting of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) manufactured and...more
On May 3, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule on procedures for chemical risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was published in the Federal Register. In the words of EPA’s...more
In 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a final rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) which requires manufacturers, including importers, of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) started the new year by finalizing two rules involving per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) and the Toxic...more
The Situation: In 2019, Congress amended the Toxic Substances Control Act ("TSCA") to require the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") to promulgate a reporting rule on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ("PFAS"). EPA...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching and enormously important final rule (Rule) on Oct. 11, 2023, requiring comprehensive reporting of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) manufactured...more
On June 28, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a proposed rule that would require a one-time report from companies that manufactured or imported per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in any...more
Do any of the articles, or article components, that your company imports contain PFAS? If so, your company may become subject to extensive reporting requirements proposed by EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)....more
Under the EPA fee rule for TSCA (40 C.F.R. § 700.45), manufacturers (including importers) of chemicals undergoing risk evaluation are subject to the TSCA fee of $1.35 million. Following publication of a preliminary list of...more
One of the hallmarks of the 2016 United States TSCA reform bill was the creation of a risk evaluation process for certain chemical substances. To implement this risk evaluation process, EPA promulgated regulations regarding...more
In 2016, after decades without any changes, Congress amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (the “TCSA”) with an eye towards updating and modernizing the regulatory regime for chemical substances. One of the elements of the...more
Under the recently amended Toxic Substances and Control Act (TSCA), EPA is bound by new requirements and enforceable timetables to complete risk assessments for chemicals manufactured, distributed and imported to the United...more
Barack Obama signed the bipartisan Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act on 22 June of this year. This Act, which came into immediate effect, amends the core provisions of the Toxic Substances Control...more