TSCA Developments 2020

Terry has spent more than 15 years as a reporter, editor and digital news team leader providing information for legal and regulatory professionals across a variety of topics, including health care, clean energy and climate change, occupational health and toxic substances. He joined Chemical Watch News & Insight in 2020.

Alexandra (Alex) Dunn is a Partner in the Environmental, Safety, and Incident Response group at the international law firm of Baker Botts with 27 plus years of practice at the local, state, and federal levels of government. Her deep relationships across the nation and reputation for transparency, fairness, and equity, make her an effective presence in the difficult settings. Alex works with companies of all sizes – from multi-national corporations to startups – and with national organizations on environmental justice and risk communication, sustainability, the regulation and management of emerging contaminants, chemical regulations, enforcement and compliance assistance, and risk communication. .

During a 36 year career Jeff held a variety of positions in Rohm and Haas and Dow Chemical including global regulatory specialist and global product stewardship manager for the Coatings Division. In 2013 he was named corporate TSCA manager for Dow Chemical. After retiring from Dow in 2016 he joined knoell USA, LLC as a Senior Regulatory Scientist.

Lynn L. Bergeson has earned an international reputation for her deep and expansive understanding of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the European Union Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), and especially how these regulatory programs pertain to nanotechnology, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, and other emerging transformative technologies. She counsels clients on a wide range of issues pertaining to product stewardship; chemical hazard, exposure, and risk assessment; risk communication; minimizing legal liability; and product lifecycle strategy.

John J. Kowalski is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) and an expert in Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regulations. In his current role as a regulatory affairs lead at UL Solutions, John manages a team responsible for maintaining TSCA-related content in UL Solutions’ regulatory database, developing and providing TSCA-related training, and helping customers across different industries with TSCA compliance. This includes, but is not limited to, preparing Section 5 notices and Section 8 reports using the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Chemical Information Submission System and Central Data Exchange.

ob Sussman is the principal in Sussman and Associates, a law and consulting firm that offers advice and support on energy and environmental policy issues to clients in the non-profit and private sectors.  Bob serves as counsel to Safer Chemicals Healthy Families (SCHF), a coalition of non-profit environmental and public health groups.

Herb Estreicher is recognized as a leading chemical regulations attorney with a particular practice emphasis on TSCA and is one of the few U.S.-based lawyers with extensive experience with the EU REACH regulation. He holds a law degree and a Ph.D. in Chemistry. Herb is listed as a foreign lawyer (B List) with the Brussels legal bar. He is often quoted in prominent industry publications, including Inside EPA, Inside TSCA, and Chemical Watch, and is frequently invited to speak at international chemical regulation conferences.

Erik’s practice centers on providing effective legal advocacy and advice on environmental, workplace, and product regulations, laws, and litigation involving chemicals, hazardous waste, product stewardship, transportation of articles, endangered species, air emissions, discharges to water, and pesticides. Erik is known and acclaimed for his savvy at creating successful advocacy strategies and submissions for desired regulatory outcomes, his litigation instincts and talent for presenting highly persuasive arguments to the courts, his deep understanding of not only the regulations but also the regulators, his endless efforts to generate value for clients while working efficiently and effectively, and his ability to translate his strong interpersonal skills to work constructively with regulators and legislators of all affiliations.

Sara Beth’s practice focuses on chemical regulatory, environmental and health and safety compliance counseling and litigation. She develops compliance strategies for the regulated entity that address U.S. federal regulatory programs and state programs such as California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and defends enforcement actions.

Richard E. Engler, Ph.D. is Director of Chemistry with Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. and The Acta Group.  Dr. Engler is a 17-year veteran of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is one of the most widely recognized experts in the field of green chemistry, having served as senior staff scientist in EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) and leader of EPA's Green Chemistry Programme.