asking Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to invoke Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act "to establish regulations prohibiting the manufacturing, processing, use, and distribution of N--N'-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine for and in tires."
Present in most if not all tires, 6PPD has been in use for over half a century. The highly reactive chemical breaks down into 6PPD-quinone , which, according to Earthjustice,"is the second-most toxic chemical to aquatic species ever evaluated by EPA," behind the chemical warfare agent parathion. "There is no known safe level of 6PPD in tires, and no warning or label requirements will eliminate the unreasonable risk from the use of tires containing 6PPD because the formation and release of 6PPD-q is an intended, inherent, and foreseeable result of using 6PPD in tires," the petition stresses.
Elizabeth Forsyth, the senior attorney at Earthjustice's Biodiversity Defense Program, noted that"tire companies have known for years that they need to move beyond 6PPD to find viable alternatives."
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