Register for EPA’s Webinar on Proposed Rule to Protect People from Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemical Exposures

Released December 5, 2023

Join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday, December 14, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. ET for a webinar on the Agency’s November 2023 proposed rule to further protect people from exposure to two chemicals that are toxic, remain in the environment for long periods of time, and accumulate in the body. Both decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) and phenol, isopropylated phosphate (3:1) (PIP (3:1)) are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals that were subject to risk management rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). 

EPA’s proposed rule would impose workplace safety protections and restrict water releases. It would also address broader implementation issues affecting the supply chains of various industry sectors including the nuclear energy sector, transportation, construction, agriculture, forestry, mining, life sciences, and semiconductor production. 

This webinar will present an overview of the proposed rule and will be particularly useful for those who would like to provide comments including industry groups, nonprofit or academic organizations, Tribes, or other interested parties. If you would like to provide a comment during the webinar, please email Sarah Soliman at soliman.sarah@epa.gov before December 12, 2023.  

Additionally, EPA is accepting public comments on the proposed rule until January 8, 2024, via docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2023-0376 at www.regulations.gov.  
 
Register for the webinar.