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On July 15, 2016, Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®), was quoted in an Environmental Leader article on the impacts of the loss of a green chemistry provision from Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reform. As Lynn Bergeson, managing partner of Bergeson & Campbell writes in a blog post, the provision “called for a study of how to best incentivize sustainable chemistry research and development, as well as support ‘economic, legal and other...

On July 15, 2016, Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report quoted Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®), in the article “Give EPA Detailed New Chemical Notices, Attorneys Advise.” Pre-manufacture notifications, or PMNs, that makers must submit before they can produce or import a new chemical, and significant new use notifications, which companies must submit before they can make or use certain chemicals in new ways, “need to be much more...

On July 14, 2016, Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report included quotes from the B&C® and Chemical Watch webinar “The New TSCA Series Webinar 2: Impacts on New Chemical Programs.” Chemical manufacturers and processors will need to give exposure and toxicity data to the EPA for it to evaluate the risks of new and existing chemicals as required by the recently amended Toxic Substances Control Act, said Charles Auer, who directed the EPA...

On July 12, 2016, Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®), was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report article “More Than 300 New Chemicals Snagged as EPA Implements Law.” Lynn Bergeson, managing partner of Bergeson & Campbell PC, told Bloomberg BNA July 11 the number of new chemicals affected by the EPA's implementation of the newly amended Toxic Substances Control Act isn't large. For an individual company,...

On July 11, 2016, Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®), was quoted in the IHS Chemical Week article “Responsible Care: TSCA reform and enhancing product safety.” “Chemical companies need to start paying attention to what EPA is doing and announcing—and raise concerns so they can be heard.” Lynn Bergeson, a managing partner at environmental law firm Bergeson & Campbell, agrees, adding chemical companies should “carefully monitor [EPA’s]...

On July 1, 2016, the ABA Journal quoted Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®), on the future of nanotechnology legal obligations. “The legal profession needs to be very mindful of the legal obligations that arise because of this technology,” says Lynn L. Bergeson, the managing director at Bergeson & Campbell in Washington, D.C., and chair of the Pesticides, Chemical Regulation and Right-to-Know Committee in the ABA Section of Environ­ment, Energy...

On June 30, 2016, Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®), was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report article “Amended Law Affecting New Chemicals' Market Entry,” discussing the impact of Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reform on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) premanufacture notifications (PMNs) reviews. Lynn Bergeson, managing partner of Bergeson & Campbell PC, told Bloomberg BNA June 30 that because of...

On June 29, 2016, Inside EPA quoted the Bergeson & Campbell P.C. (B&C®) memorandum, “TSCA Reform:  An Analysis of Key Provisions and Fundamental Shifts in the Amended TSCA,” analyzing the new TSCA law. The law firm Bergeson & Campbell in a June 22 analysis of the new law says that the amended section 26(p) of TSCA "arguably afford EPA broad discretion to establish procedures for disposing of any Section 5 cases that are pending before EPA (including those...

Webinar 2: "Impacts on New and Existing Chemicals Programs" Thursday, July 14, 20168:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time/11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time/16:00 British Summer Time Register Today In this second episode of the complimentary webinar series "The New TSCA -- What You Need To Know," Chemical Watch and an assembled faculty of Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) experts will take a deeper dive into the profound changes that the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical...

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) announced today the launch of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Blog (TSCAblog™) to track and report regulatory, scientific, legal, and policy developments under the "new TSCA." On June 22, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg), which makes important changes to TSCA and is the first revision of U.S. domestic chemical management law in 40 years. Stakeholders will need...

On June 22, 2016, James V. Aidala, Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs with The Acta Group (Acta®), was quoted in a Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report article on the expected U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implementation of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. Jim Aidala, former head of the EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, told Bloomberg BNA the first few months of implementation of...

On June 16, 2016, Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®), was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report article, “California Agency Examining Impacts of TSCA-Reform Bill.” Lynn Bergeson, managing partner of Bergeson & Campbell PC, said federal preemption would apply only to certain actions, such as restrictions. It wouldn't extend to state laws that require reporting or monitoring. “That said, TSCA preemption would appear to have...

On June 16, 2016, James V. Aidala, Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs with The Acta Group (Acta®), was quoted in the Chemical Watch article “EPA Implementation Of TSCA To Be ‘Enormous Undertaking.’” The Lautenberg Act sets out “very aggressive deadlines” that will “not be easy to meet”, agreed Jim Aidala – a former Assistant Administrator for the EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) and senior government...

On June 15, 2016, Bergeson & Campbell P.C.’s (B&C®) memoranda, “TSCA Reform:  An Analysis of Key Provisions and Fundamental Shifts in the Amended TSCA,” was quoted in the Inside EPA article, “Questions Linger On EPA Approach To TSCA Bill's New Chemicals Program.” "While Lautenberg appears to afford EPA the discretion needed to fashion an appropriate transitional policy for disposing of currently pending and suspended Section 5 notices, it does not...

On June 14, 2016, Richard E. Engler, Ph.D., Senior Chemist at The Acta Group (Acta®), presented “U.S. Market Pressure and the Battle between Hazard and Risk” at the 2016 Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference. Dr. Engler discussed the various risk-based regulations at play in the U.S., including the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA),...

On June 13, 2016, the Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report article, “TSCA Changes May Alter Pending Chemical Rules for Articles,” included comments by Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®). The EPA may need to conduct new analyses to support its proposed rules or the agency may need to re-propose them in light of changes the TSCA-reform bill would make to the criteria the agency should use when regulating manufactured goods, or “articles,” said...

On June 10, 2016, Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report included comments from Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta®), speaking about the impacts of passing the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. “The bill's many deadlines will drive EPA activities at a frantic pace,” said Lynn Bergeson, managing partner of Bergeson & Campbell. […] Among the deadlines the EPA faces in the first year of the law's implementation:...

On June 8, 2016, the Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report article, “With Chemical Safety Law, Congress Hands EPA Herculean Task,” quoted James V. Aidala, Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs with The Acta Group (Acta®). “It's a very ambitious undertaking—it's going to be hard,” said James Aidala, the former head of EPA's chemical safety office and a consultant at Bergeson & Campbell. “It is going to take a long time, even if the administration...

Register Today For "The New TSCA -- Overview and Summary of Major Changes: What to Expect and When to Expect It" Monday June 13, 20168:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time / 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time / 4:00 p.m. British Summer Time Speakers: Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner, Bergeson & Campbell P.C. Richard A. Denison, Ph.D., Lead Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund Charles M....

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®) are pleased to announce that Michael S. Wenk, M.S., has joined our teams as Senior Regulatory Consultant. Mr. Wenk has managed global regulatory affairs and product stewardship divisions at Fortune 500 chemical and chemical product companies for over 20 years and is an internationally-recognized expert in chemical registration and regulation in Central and South America, and the Middle East. With a Master's Degree in...