Lawyer 2 Lawyer · Attorney J. Craig Williams and Legal Talk Network

The Banning of TCE & PCE, and the Future of the EPA

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Wendy Wagner describes finding dead tadpoles in a polluted river that's now a Superfund site, sparking her environmental law career.
Professor Wendy Wagner describes chemical regulation as a system where industry does not have to prove safety before production, leaving EPA to regulate chemicals later.

As heard by us

A clear look at how chemical bans test EPA authority.

Lawyer 2 Lawyer starts with the EPA ban on PCE and TCE, then uses that as a way into the harder problem of regulating hazardous chemicals before the damage is already out in the world.

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You want the legal machinery behind EPA's December 9, 2024 ban on PCE and TCE, not just the headline.

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