"The Trump administration’s EPA has seen success more quickly reviewing companies’ requests to make certain new chemicals and plans to expand its use of strategies that are speeding those decisions, a senior agency official said Monday.
The Environmental Protection Agency realized by the end of March that manufacturers’ requests to make 79 new chemicals qualifying for an expedited 30-day review hadn’t been addressed by the Biden administration, said Lynn Dekleva, deputy assistant administrator in its Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.
Under President Donald Trump, staff grouped those 79 chemicals into categories based on features such as similar uses or characteristics, and then identified ways to more quickly decide whether to grant the companies’ requests to make them, Dekleva told Bloomberg Law in an interview.
The result: The EPA in April and May reviewed all 79 applications along with 27 more, and it completed evaluating the risks of the 106 chemicals, according to data the agency provided. The EPA made final decisions on 80% of the applications, and it’s waiting for additional information from the companies that filed the remaining 20%, the agency said."
Pat Rizzuto reports for Bloomberg Environment August 11, 2025.
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