Employers Say TSCA Requires OSHA To Regulate Workers’ Chemical Risks

Trade groups are asking a federal appeals court to hold that the reformed TSCA gave OSHA, not EPA, primary responsibility to regulate any “unreasonable risks” to workers from toxic substances, seeking to scrap the agency’s approach to chemical-specific rules that has focused primarily -- sometimes exclusively -- on workplace dangers. The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is “not a worker protection law,” an array of industry groups wrote in their joint opening brief to the U.S. Circuit Court for the...