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EPA Science Advisors Confirm Foundational Flaws in Formaldehyde TSCA Risk Evaluation and IRIS Assessment
EPA Science Advisors Confirm Foundational Flaws in Formaldehyde TSCA Risk Evaluation and IRIS Assessment

Formaldehyde remains a critical building block for essential U.S. applications including agriculture, food safety, medical devices, semiconductors, automobiles/electric vehicles, and affordable housing. Formaldehyde technologies have broad roles i...

ACC Formaldehyde Panel Comments on TSCA Risk Evaluation

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) Formaldehyde Panel appreciates the opportunity to provide comments to the EPA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC), the EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, and the EPA Office of Pesticides ...

ACC Statement on EPA’s Methylene Chloride TSCA Risk Management Rule
ACC Statement on EPA’s Methylene Chloride TSCA Risk Management Rule

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final risk management rule for methylene chloride under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). 

ACC Statement on EPA’s TSCA Risk Evaluation Framework Rule
ACC Statement on EPA’s TSCA Risk Evaluation Framework Rule

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued a statement in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of the Risk Evaluation Framework Rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

ACC Comments on EPA’s Asbestos Part 2 Draft TSCA Risk Evaluation
ACC Comments on EPA’s Asbestos Part 2 Draft TSCA Risk Evaluation

Today, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Asbestos Part 2 Draft Risk Evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). 

ACC’s Response to the EPA’s Asbestos Part 1 TSCA Risk Management Rule
ACC’s Response to the EPA’s Asbestos Part 1 TSCA Risk Management Rule

Continued safe production is necessary in order to supply chlorine used in numerous lifesaving and life-enhancing applications such as water treatment to provide safe drinking water, over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceuticals, disinfectants...

Panel Letter to EPA on the SACC Peer Review Process

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) Formaldehyde Panel appreciates the opportunity to provide additional scientific and legal comments on EPA’s December 26, 2023 Federal Register solicitation of nominees and notice of forthcoming peer review (the...

Coalition Letter: Sound Science for Farmers Act
Coalition Letter: Sound Science for Farmers Act

The Sound Science for Farmers Act is important legislation to ensure accountability, stakeholder outreach, and scientific quality for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assessments, risk evaluations, and regulatory actions for important chemistr...

ACC to EPA: Let’s Turn TSCA Promises Into Measurable Results
ACC to EPA: Let’s Turn TSCA Promises Into Measurable Results

The Senate EPW Committee held a hearing on the implementation of the 2016 amendments to TSCA. During the hearing, EPA Assistant Administrator Dr. Michal Freedhoff testified before the committee on what the Agency described as the TSCA program achi...

TSCA Health and Medical Care Applications

It is imperative for sound science and accurate exposure information to be used to inform the risk evaluations or these critical chemistries could be restricted or eliminated from the supply chain, impacting product availability due to faulty proc...