Toxic Substances Control Act Research Articles

ACS gives views on implementing TSCA

ACS gives views on implementing TSCA

Toxic substances law: a quiet first year

Last year C&EN polled key industry executives about how the then newly enacted Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) would affect the chemical industry (Jan. 3, 1977, page 15). Most of them expressed guarded optimism about the new law, but some did have serious misgivings. One firm, in fact, which originally supported toxic control legislation, no longer thought it necessary in light of other environmental laws passed in recent years. Now, after a little more than a year, C&EN again has asked some of the same industry leaders for their assessment of how TSCA is progressing and how well the Environmental Protection Agency is administering the law. Overall I'd have to say that things are going more reasonably and more realistically than we would have expected, observes George Dominguez, Ciba-Geigy Corp.'s director of government relations, and chairman of the Manufacturing Chemists Association's regulatory advisory committee. We're kind of happy that EPA's apparently taken cognizance ...

Implementation of TSCA

Implementation of TSCA

First Chemicals picked for testing under TSCA

First Chemicals picked for testing under TSCA

EPA Jolts industry with revised TSCA rules

EPA Jolts industry with revised TSCA rules