Each year, the American Bar Association (ABA)'s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources publishes a summary of important developments in environmental, energy, and resources law. Beveridge & Diamond principal Mark Duvall (Washington, DC) and associate Sarah Kettenmann (New York, NY) authored the summary of science-related Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regulatory developments in 2019 for the Science & Technology chapter of the report. This section of the chapter focuses on the status of EPA's risk evaluations of existing and new chemical substances, which are required under TSCA as amended by the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. Sarah Munger (Austin, TX), Beveridge & Diamond associate and Vice-Chair of ABA's Committee on Science and Technology, edited the chapter, which also includes a summary of policy developments in 2019 concerning EPA’s proposed revision of its cost-benefit analysis.

Click here to read the full article.

©2020 by the American Bar Association.  Reprinted with permission.  All rights reserved.  This information or any or portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.

Beveridge & Diamond’s Chemicals Regulation practice group and Chemicals industry group provide strategic, business-focused advice to the global chemicals industry. We work with large and small chemical companies whose products and activities are subject to EPA’s broad chemical regulatory authority under TSCA and state chemical restrictions. For more information, please contact the authors.