Is Your Degreaser on the December 2019 List?

EPA put the trans-1,2-dichloroethylene draft risk evaluation out this morning with a preliminary finding of unreasonable risk, and it is the eighteenth of the twenty substances designated high-priority in December 2019. Four of those eighteen landed in the last seventeen days. Plus thirty-five new SNURs dated to the same day in October, a June new-chemicals queue that is mostly a battery queue, and five more names in the DEA registration file.

EPA has been running a queue that was supposed to be finished in June 2023, and this month it started emptying it four substances at a time.

The draft risk evaluation for trans-1,2-dichloroethylene went into the Federal Register this morning. EPA's preliminary determination is that the substance "does pose unreasonable risk to human health."

"How fast is the existing-chemicals backlog actually clearing, and which molecules come out of it next?"

Faster than the last six years would suggest, and the chart below is the part that will surprise you.

Here is the week's file.

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