TSCA Developments 2025

Based in Washington D.C., Melanie Rybar supports Enhesa Product Intelligence as the expert on North America regulatory content. She has spent her career in the chemical manufacturing industry, conducting regulatory analysis, risk management reviews, developing new products and processes for companies making surfactants, functional polymers and other specialty chemicals intended for use in consumer products.

Prior to joining Chemical Watch News & Insight in 2015, Kelly managed regulatory affairs for several trade groups in the building products industry. Her academic background is in English and Spanish.

Martha Marrapese is a sought-out legal and policy advisor on matters where technological advancement, environmental protection and governance intersect. Her clients are solving today’s major environmental security issues including climate change, PFAS, and ocean plastics. Martha frequently consults on plastics, electronic waste and battery recycling, and extended producer responsibility. She is a leading expert on chemical control under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), as well as initiatives that advance biobased, sustainable products.

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. 

W. Caffey Norman’s environmental practice focuses on the regulation of hazardous chemicals by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and various state regulatory agencies. He has been particularly active in the subject areas of toxic substances, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global warming. For many years he has developed and successfully implemented strategies to defend products targeted for phase out or use reduction. He has participated in EPA rulemakings to regulate hazardous substances under all the environmental statutes and has initiated legislative and judicial review of a number of EPA regulations. Mr. Norman has also represented industry task forces in connection with pesticide registration and the negotiation of test rules and testing consent orders. Mr. Norman has successfully challenged a number of regulations in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

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.

Aury Hathout, M. Env, VEA®, CEA, is a certified environmental auditor and has a Master’s degree in Environment combined with graduate education in Business Administration from the University of Sherbrooke. Since 2008, Aury provides practical consulting services, including environmental compliance and management systems auditing in multiple industrial and services sectors. He is the environmental compliance specialist of hundreds of electrical and electronic products sold worldwide, with any of the following requirements: RoHS, REACH SVHC, WEEE, PFAS, TSCA-PBT, Conflict Minerals, California Proposition 65, etc. At Enviropass, Aury works as the lab quality manager.

Dr. Passarella is an expert strategist in navigating international chemical regulations.  At Intertek, she uses her chemical and legal experience and skill at interpreting complex chemical regulations to design and implement effective policies to protect client’s products.  During her career, Dr. Passarella has advocated for sustainable chemical management to enable the manufacture and sale of products in US and global markets. After completing her Ph.D. in chemistry, she formulated products, managed R&D groups, and managed global Product Stewardship and Sustainability. It was during this time that she pursued a law degree at night school, and is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  Her combination of industry experience, and an in-depth knowledge of chemistry and the law enables her to translate regulatory trends and requirements into business and compliance action plans.

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.

As Vice President of the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Division, Kimberly oversees the development of ACC’s policy positions in response to regulatory and legislative proposals. She also leads a staff of experts to identify, analyze and create technical and policy materials to serve as the foundation for ACC’s activities.

Molly Blessing leads sustainability initiatives for the Household & Commercial Products Association (HCPA), a trade association consisting of approximately 240 member companies across the supply chain who make and sell over $180 billion of trusted and familiar products that help consumers and workers clean, protect, maintain, and disinfect homes and commercial environments. Molly has previously worked at Henkel Adhesive Technologies and Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.  She is also a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Chemistry Program intern.  Molly has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut, a Master of International Affairs with a concentration in Energy and Environment from Columbia University, and an M.S. in Product Stewardship from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Seth Goldberg focuses his practice on a broad range of chemical regulatory, environmental, and life sciences matters. His chemical regulatory practice is built on an understanding of federal and state regulatory programs, including the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and California Proposition 65. He also has experience with regulatory regimes in other jurisdictions, such as biocides, plant protection products, and general chemical regulation (REACH) in the European Union, as well as similar programs in China.