
Environmentalists and academics who support strict chemical rules are calling on Congress to boost oversight of the TSCA program to ensure the agency is using updated and protective scientific approaches to risk assessment, mirroring industry calls for tougher scrutiny of EPA’s toxics work from the GOP-led House. During a March 29 Capitol Hill briefing organized by the University of California San Francisco’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE), speakers from that office and allied environmental groups urged lawmakers and their staff to raise pressure on EPA for stronger Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) implementation, while also voicing support for budget and staffing increases.