The Environmental Protection Agency is more quickly deciding if new chemicals can be made, according to the agency’s top ...

The EPA’s latest decision to review its own 2024 ban on chrysotile asbestos reignites a regulatory tug of war that has ...

President Donald Trump's administration is considering reversing the asbestos ban — a move that has drawn public criticism.

Though the toxics program faces workforce shortages and potential budget cuts, it is expected to add staff in order to ...

The EPA under President Trump says it will review a Biden-era ban on chrysotile asbestos, the last form still legally used in ...

Former President Joe Biden's administration banned "ongoing uses" of the last form of asbestos permitted in the United States.

The Environmental Protection Agency told a federal appeals court it will reconsider the Biden administration's ban on the last type of asbestos used in the United States to determine whether it went ...

Chrysotile asbestos is found in products like brake blocks, asbestos diaphragms and sheet gaskets and was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was broadened in 2016. When the ban ...

The Environmental Protection Agency will reconsider a Biden administration ban on the last type of asbestos used in the ...

Patricia Underwood, Lynn L. Bergeson, and Richard E. Engler discuss DOD RFI seeking information on certain chemicals undergoing TSCA Section 6 risk evaluation. What we really need is the end-to-end ...

The move signals a shift from the Biden administration’s approach to regulating harmful chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a sweeping law aimed at protecting public health.