The EPA is “strongly thinking” about giving retailers, product importers, and chemical manufacturers more time to say whether they actually make or import 20 chemicals that will be evaluated for their risks to health and the environment, an agency attorney said Monday.
The first wide-scale application of a 2018 rule is raising challenges for companies that would have to pay a total of $27 million to defray the cost of evaluating the risks of 20 chemicals, said Ryan Schmit, an attorney working in the EPA’s chemicals office.
The agency could extend a pending March 27 notification deadline, Schmit said during…
