Items Tagged with 'regulation/legislation'

At the beginning of the year, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced that it is taking on new responsibilities under the EU’s One Substance, One Assessment (OSOA) package.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced at the end of December 2025 that it will move to regulate dozens of applications of five widely used phthalate chemicals. 

This column provides a current snapshot of PFAS regulatory action in the United States using recent actions in the states of New Mexico, Maine, and Minnesota.

The first session of the Stakeholder Forum focused on the REACH revision and its impact on end-user stakeholders and markets.

At its annual Washington Fly-In, ACD urged members of Congress to support the chemical distribution supply chain. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released the final risk evaluation for formaldehyde conducted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Formaldehyde Panel issued a statement challenging the scientific rigor of EPA’s assessment. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will formally designate five known or probable carcinogens as High-Priority Substances (HPS) that will undergo a risk evaluation under the nation’s chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). 

The final EPA rules ban all uses of TCE, all consumer uses and many commercial uses of PCE, and require worker protections for all remaining uses under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the meeting minutes and final report from the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals virtual public meeting regarding the 2024 draft TSCA risk evaluation for di-isodecyl phthalate (DIDP) and the hazard analysis supporting the draft risk evaluation for di-isononyl phthalate (DINP).

Representatives from Palmer Holland and the Alliance for Chemical Distribution (ACD) answer questions about the latest challenges in the chemical distribution industry.