Re-Regulating Chemicals

Chemical makers this year face regulatory or legislative action on each of industry’s top priorities—climate, energy, a rework of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), chemical plant security, and railroad competition (CW, Jan. 11, p. 21). Substantial action on chemicals is coming in 2010 and could mark what is, in effect, a re-regulation of the sector in U.S. Policy changes are likely to be the most profound since the 1970s when EPA was formed and the statutes that still guide U.S. air, water and chemical management policy were created. A recent...

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