Labor Groups Preview Narrow Challenge To TSCA Risk Evaluation Rule

Unions and a worker-protection group are signaling that their suit over EPA’s rule setting out requirements for chemical risk evaluations will target a single provision allowing the agency to consider data on companies’ use of protective equipment in its reviews -- a narrow focus despite the rule’s broad swath of policy changes. The United Steel Workers (USW), International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and California nonprofit Worksafe on June 19 filed a joint statement of issues in their...