EPA Weighs Calls To Use OSHA Data In New Chemical Reporting Rule

Environmental groups are urging EPA to draw on OSHA data on workplace chemical exposures in its newly announced “tiered” reporting rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), alongside arguments that officials should tighten their current plans for the rule in order to generate new data that could aid OSHA and other agencies. In comments submitted ahead of an Aug. 16 deadline, both a broad coalition of environmental groups and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) individually urge EPA to expand its...