The Agency proposed to strengthen the requirements for companies to use the best available and safest technology.

I also want to acknowledge that this is Earth Day, and that is an annual occurrence on this date every year.

Thank you, Director Salerno, for your testimony, and also for the impressive amount of work you have done on new drilling and safety regulations following the Deepwater Horizon incident.

I hope we can agree that safety should always be our top priority.

The production safety system rules were last updated in 1988, and that is more than 25 years ago.

this is an ongoing problem, and we must continue working on it.

It probably does need to be changed along the way.

I hope you will work with this committee because we intend to, I hope, move forward to ensure the language gives effect to that kind of intent.

I applaud the efforts that we have made so far but we have a ways to go to make sure that we move chemical regulation forward.

So since 2009, there has been widespread agreement that this cost-benefit standard does need to be abandoned.

Under current law, TSCA has used an 'unreasonable risk' standard to evaluate the safety of a chemical.