EPA Strengthens Worker Protections In Proposed Carbon Nanotube SNURs

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed significant new use rules (SNURs) for some 37 chemicals, including more than a dozen nanomaterials, requiring greater worker protections than the agency's past SNURs for other carbon nanotubes, a change labor groups and federal occupational health and safety officials have been seeking, according to a source with a safe technology group.