The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington on Aug. 7, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to regulate how phthalate chemicals are used in work settings, a decision made after the agency completed its risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said in a Dec. 31 post on X.
Phthalates, used mainly as plasticizers in PVC products, are utilized in many industrial and consumer products.
