TSCA

Earthjustice y el Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) publicaron una investigación conjunta que muestra cómo la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de la administración Trump viola regularmente la Ley de Control de Sustancias Tóxicas (o TSCA, por sus siglas en inglés) que regula la fabricación, el uso y la distribución de productos químicos. Desde agosto de 2016 hasta abril de 2019, Earthjustice y EDF revisaron en detalle más de 200 solicitudes nuevas, así como todos los avisos publicados por la EPA para informar al público sobre el recibo de un equivalente de 1.700 solicitudes entre 2016 y principios de 2020.

Our organizations include community groups in areas affected by PFAS contamination, a national coalition of impacted communities, and local and national organizations advocating for strengthened protections against the risks posed by existing and new PFAS chemicals. The three premanufacture notices (“PMNs”) are merely the latest examples of new PFAS submitted for EPA approval without the studies and data required to evaluate their effects on human health and the environment and therefore without the information needed to support a determination that they are unlikely to pose an unreasonable risk.

To Acting EPA administrator Wheeler — on behalf of the mothers of two young men who recently died from methylene chloride exposure, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, and Vermont Public Interest Research Group — over the U.S. EPA’s failure to finalize a ban on the use of this lethal chemical in paint strippers.