TheTakeaway
48 May 2015
The Uphill Battle to
Better Regulate
Formaldehyde
The E.P.A.'s five-year effort to
adopt a new rule for formalde-
hyde offers another example
of how industry opposition can
delay and hamper attempts by
the federal government to issue
regulations, even to control
substances known to be harmful
to human health.
This was the subject of a recent
NY Times article. Read it at:
http://www.nytimes.
com/2015/05/04/business/ener-
gy-environment/the-uphill-battle-
to-better-regulate-formaldehyde.
html
