EPA Sends Final PCE Risk Management Rule For White House Review

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has opened interagency review of EPA’s final TSCA rule governing perchloroethylene (PCE), setting up a renewed battle among stakeholders over the agency’s proposal to ban PCE in many sectors, while imposing strict exposure limits in others and a decade-long phaseout of the solvent for dry-cleaning. OMB received the final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) PCE rule on May 30, according to its website, opening a process where the White House and...