Laws & Regulations

Find Best Management Practices to Protect Pollinators

Resources and ways to reduce potential pesticide exposure to honey bees and other pollinators include new pesticide labels, neonicotinoid insecticide information, reducing dust from treated seed, and state-level efforts.

EPA Updates Voluntary Consensus Standards in its Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Composite Wood Products

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing technical updates to its Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Composite Wood Products .

Enforceability and Use of the Actual-to-Projected-Actual Applicability Test in Determining Major Modification Applicability

Memo to clarify that to so long as a company complies with the procedural requirements of a preconstruction analysis, then EPA will not second-guess that analysis.

NPDES Permit for Soap Creek Associates Wastewater Treatment Facility in Montana

Under National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit number MT-0023183, Soap Creek Associates, Inc. is authorized to discharge from its wastewater treatment facility located in Bighorn County, Montana, to Soap Creek.

NPDES Permit for City of St. Maries Wastewater Treatment Plant in Idaho

EPA's NPDES wastewater permit for the City of St. Maries, Idaho.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Chapter 11 - Tolerance Petitions

This Chapter provides information on definitions, interpretative regulations and procedures for filing a petition for establishment of a tolerance or an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Chapter 14 - How to Obtain an EPA Company or Establishment Number or Change Address or Contact Information

This chapter provides information on how to get an establishment number for pesticide registration applicants

Technical information supporting the Round 2 SO2 designations

Technical information supporting SO2 designations to be completed by July 2, 2016

Toxics Release Inventory Search Tool Now Available in Spanish

Announcement that information on industrial chemical releases from the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is available in Spanish.

EPA Releases Draft Revised Risk Determination for 1-Bromopropane for Public Comment

this page has info on the release on the addition of PFAS to the TRI per the 2020 NDAA

EPA Releases Revised Draft Risk Evaluation for PV29 for Public Comment and Peer Review

Announcement by the EPA of a revised draft risk evaluation for C.I. Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) for public comment and peer review under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

EPA Releases Updated 2019 TRI Data

EPA is releasing updated 2019 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data, continuing the agency’s commitment to providing the public with important data and information about chemicals in their communities.

Pesticide Registration Manual: Chapter 3 - Additional Considerations for Biopesticide Products

Biopesticides are certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals that fall into three major classes: microbial pesticides, plant-incorporated protectants, and biochemical pesticides.

TSCA Section 4(a)(2) Test Order for p-Dichlorobenzene

This is the Test Order issued by EPA to require testing from certain manufacturers and processors of p-Dichlorobenzene (CASRN 106-46-7).

TSCA Section 4(a)(2) Test Order for 1,2-Dichloropropane

This is the Test Order issued by EPA to require testing from certain manufacturers and processors of 1,2-Dichloropropane (CASRN 78-87-5).

TSCA Section 4(a)(2) Test Order for o-Dichlorobenzene

This is the Test Order issued by EPA to require testing from certain manufacturers and processors of o-Dichlorobenzene (CASRN 95-50-1).

Fact Sheet: Reporting After Changes to Company Ownership or Legal Identity

This fact sheet provides information for persons who may be subject to the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule about issues related to changes to company ownership or legal identity which may affect reporting for 2016.

Interpreting the 2016 CDR Data

EPA summarized key information from the 2012 Chemical Data Reporting effort.

Pesticide Reregistration Performance Measures and Goals 1997-2008

Find past annual reports that were submitted, as required by the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (as amended by FQPA), describing the agency's progress in meeting goals for reregistration and tolerance assessment.

Mixtures Equation Pilot Program to Reduce Animal Testing

EPA is announcing the start of a pilot program to evaluate the usefulness and acceptability of a mathematical tool (the GHS Mixtures Equation), which is used in the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).