The EPA is giving certain industries that use and release a harmful solvent, trichloroethylene, more time before they have to comply with a 2024 regulation that banned the chemical.
The Environmental Protection Agency also will give companies more time to let their customers know about restrictions the agency has placed on the solvent, because the supply chain needs to understand restrictions the agency has placed on trichloroethylene (TCE), the EPA said in an interim final rule released on Friday.
The interim final rule, which is effective immediately, allows TCE to continue to be used a processing aid in the manufacture ...