EPA Increases Maximum TSCA and FIFRA Penalties

The Environmental Protection Agency is increasing amounts of civil penalties for violations of the laws and regulations it administers, including the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and Toxic Substances Control Act, it said in an interim rule (here). The one-time “catch up,” which more than doubles some penalty amounts, was required by the Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, signed into law in November, and will be followed by annual adjustments for inflation.