Lawrence Halprin Quoted in Inside TSCA Article on TSCA ‘Superseding’ OSHA on Worker Chemical Safeguards

Keller and Heckman Partner Lawrence Halprin was quoted in the Inside TSCA article, “Attorney Says TSCA Will ‘Supersede’ OSHA On Worker Chemical Safeguards.” The article references Lawrence’s paper for the Washington Legal Foundation, “A Methylene Chloride Proposal: An EPA Template for Superseding OSHA on Workplace Chemical Regulation,” where he discusses how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) appears poised to “supersede” the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) “as the agency with primary responsibility for establishing substance-specific toxic chemical standards for the workplace.”

According to Lawrence, it will be critical for industry to weigh in on the early rules such as the pending methylene chloride proposal that will set a precedent for how the program operates, given the likelihood that TSCA will become the primary venue for workplace chemical standards.

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