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


August 8, 2016 at 05:25 PM
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.

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