According to Woodworking Network, the EPA is expected to soon deliver their final rule regarding implementation of the Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Products Act, which added Title VI to the Toxic Substances Control Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing revisions to the significant new uses of chemical substances under TSCA in order to "update and align these regulations with revisions to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Hazard Communications Standard, the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals and with changes to the OSHA Respiratory Protection Standard and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health respirator certification requirements pertaining to respiratory protection of workers from exposure to chemicals".

As part of a collaboration to advance knowledge and methods for orally ingested engineered nanomaterials (iENMs), David Julian McClements, along with Harvard School of Public Health professors Glen DeLoid, Georgios Pyrgiotakis, Hang Xiao, and Philip Demokritou, and Vireo Advisor's Jo Anne Shatkin, have published, “The role of the food matrix and gastrointestinal tract in the assessment of biological properties of ingested engineered nanomaterials (iENMs): State of the science and knowledge gaps” in NanoImpact. 

The Paris Climate Agreement which President Obama referred to as a “turning point for our planet” will take effect on November 4, 2016.

On August 2, 2016, the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality released their final guidance for Federal Agencies concerning how to consider the impacts of their decisions on climate change in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews.