California Worker Group Files First Challenge To TSCA Evaluation Rule

Worksafe, a California-based employee-advocacy group that often weighs in on workplace safety issues, has filed what appears to be the first formal lawsuit over EPA’s final overhaul of the TSCA “framework” for risk evaluations of existing chemicals, underlining the focus unions and worker advocates are placing on the agency’s chemical-safety program. Worksafe filed its suit May 21 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit -- likely the first of many such challenges, as environmental groups, industry and...