Formaldehyde Maker Defends Bid To Ease EPA Rulemaking Timeline

A chemical firm trying to intervene in litigation over the deadlines for 22 overdue EPA risk evaluations of toxic substances says the agency and environmentalists are raising “straw man” arguments against its participation in the case in order to prevent it from extending the proposed 2024 settlement deadline for formaldehyde. In a Sept. 20 brief to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the company Hexion Inc. says neither EPA nor environmental groups have shown “any valid reason...