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• Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Rule to Protect Workers from Exposure to C.I. Pigment Violet 29

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Rule to Protect Workers from Exposure to C.I. Pigment Violet 29

  • Release Date: December 20, 2024

• EPA Begins Five Chemical Risk Evaluations Under Toxic Substances Control Act, Starts Process for the Next Five Chemicals

  EPA News Release: EPA Begins Five Chemical Risk Evaluations Under Toxic Substances Control Act, Starts Process for the Next Five Chemicals

  • Release Date: December 18, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule for Carbon Tetrachloride to Protect Workers

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule for Carbon Tetrachloride to Protect Workers

  • Release Date: December 11, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Latest Actions under Nation’s Chemical Safety Law to Protect People from Cancer-Causing Chemicals Trichloroethylene and Perchloroethylene

  Final EPA rules ban all uses of TCE, all consumer uses and many commercial uses of PCE, require worker protections for all remaining uses under the Toxic Substances Control Act

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Latest Actions under Nation’s Chemical Safety Law to Protect People from Cancer-Causing Chemicals Trichloroethylene and Perchloroethylene

  • Release Date: December 9, 2024

• EPA Reforms New Chemicals Review Process to Better Protect Public Health, Promote Efficiency and Consistency

  Final amendments will ensure that new PFAS and persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals are subject to safety review process prior to manufacture

  EPA News Release: EPA Reforms New Chemicals Review Process to Better Protect Public Health, Promote Efficiency and Consistency

  • Release Date: December 4, 2024

• EPA Proposes Rule to Revoke Most Food Uses of the Insecticide Chlorpyrifos

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Rule to Revoke Most Food Uses of the Insecticide Chlorpyrifos

  • Release Date: December 2, 2024

• EPA Proposes Rule to Update Pesticide Application Exclusion Zone Requirements

  Proposal makes important, targeted improvements to the Application Exclusion Zone requirements to provide greater workability while continuing to protect farm workers

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Rule to Update Pesticide Application Exclusion Zone Requirements

  • Release Date: October 24, 2019

• EPA Announces 2019 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces 2019 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners

  • Release Date: September 25, 2019

• EPA Announces Competitive Grant Opportunity to Support Tribal Pesticide Program Council

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Competitive Grant Opportunity to Support Tribal Pesticide Program Council

  • Release Date: September 24, 2019

• EPA Calls for Nominations for 2020 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

  EPA News Release: EPA Calls for Nominations for 2020 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

  • Release Date: September 18, 2019

• EPA Releases Draft Policy to Reduce Pesticide Testing on Birds

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Draft Policy to Reduce Pesticide Testing on Birds

  • Release Date: September 17, 2019

• What They Are Saying | EPA Takes Action to Provide Accurate Risk Information to Consumers, Stop False Labeling on Products

  EPA News Release: What They Are Saying | EPA Takes Action to Provide Accurate Risk Information to Consumers, Stop False Labeling on Products

  • Release Date: August 13, 2019

• EPA Proposes Low-Priority Substances Under TSCA, Meets Another TSCA Milestone

  Ultimate designations will allow EPA to focus its risk evaluation efforts on chemical substances that have a significant impact on public health and the environment.

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Low-Priority Substances Under TSCA, Meets Another TSCA Milestone

  • Release Date: August 13, 2019

• EPA Announces Updated Chemical Review Tool

  Agency takes unprecedented step to make additional information about the status of chemical reviews available to the public

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Updated Chemical Review Tool

  • Release Date: August 1, 2019

• EPA Administrator Hosts Interagency Endangered Species Act Working Group Meeting

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Hosts Interagency Endangered Species Act Working Group Meeting

  • Release Date: June 6, 2019