EPA Floats TCE Rule Marking First TSCA Section 6 Bid Since Asbestos

EPA has sent for White House review a proposed Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) section 6 rule to ban or restrict the sales or manufacture of trichloroethylene (TCE) to better protect workers and others, the first attempt by the agency to use the section to restrict a chemical since its failed effort to ban asbestos in 1991.