June 30, 2014 at 04:34 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency has clarified and strengthened its risk assessment for trichloroethylene (TCE), the first such assessment the agency had conducted as part of a novel effort to evaluate and possibly regulate "existing" chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a move that comes as some stakeholders want OSHA to revisit the workplace permissible exposure limit for the substance.