EPA to Regulate Use of Multiple Chemicals in Workplaces

When exposure to some of these chemicals exceeds safety levels, workers are afflicted with endocrine dysfunction and reproductive health issues.

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.