December 9, 2014 at 09:21 PM
Energy industry officials are questioning whether the Environmental Protection Agency will ever issue a potential Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA) policy to obtain health and safety data on chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, after EPA moved the rule to the long-term actions section of its latest unified agenda of pending rules and says it is weighing "next steps" on how to proceed -- an issue that arises as other agencies including OSHA and NIOSH study the health effects of fracking on workers (see related story).