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Industry Urges EPA To Defer To OSHA's Worker Limits For New Chemicals


January 18, 2018 at 05:27 PM
A chemical industry coalition is urging EPA to forgo regulating new chemicals' risks to workers and use new authority under the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to instead inform OSHA enforcement, an approach environmentalists say is “patently illegal” and would undermine worker protections due to OSHA's limited reach and resources.

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