June 5, 2015 at 06:02 PM
The House Energy & Commerce Committee has approved bipartisan legislation to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a package of reforms that partly could affect how impacts on worker populations are considered in regulating chemicals, but members punted on how to resolve Democrats' emerging push to narrow the bill's preemption of state chemicals programs, an issue that has frustrated previous TSCA reform bills and risks doing so again.