The Environmental Protection Agency must disclose more about chemicals pending review under the Toxic Substances Control Act. |
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In the ruling, D.C. district court Judge Loren AliKhan, a Biden appointee, sided with a coalition of environmental groups, including Center for Environmental Health, Defend Our Health, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund. The groups argued that current regulations make it overly complicated for the public to obtain information. She ruled that under the law, the EPA is required to make any nonconfidential information contained in an applicant’s pre-manufacture notice (a notice that a company is going to make a new chemical) publicly available within five days.
The law, she wrote, “vest[s] an enduring right to information that lasts before, during, and after any risk determination” in the same way as the Freedom of Information Act or the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
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