Toxic Substances
Risk and the New Rules of Decisionmaking: The Need for a Single Risk Target

New rules are emerging to change the way the government makes decisions about cleanup of hazardous waste sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (…

A Practitioner's Guide to the Toxic Substances Control Act: Part I

Editors' Summary: TSCA provides EPA with broad authority to address potential hazards posed by the manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use, and disposal of chemical substances…

How to Handle Difficult Chemicals: The Unused Tool in EPA's Chemical Toolbox—Section 7 of the Toxic Substances Control Act

Editors' Summary: After TSCA was enacted in 1976, some commentators described it as the most powerful of all the environmental laws. Congress intended it to provide for the comprehensive and…

On the Importance of Regulating the International Trade of Pesticides--A Look at the Current Status of Conventional Wisdom (and Lack Thereof) on the Subject