[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: TCE Assessment Delayed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Please excuse duplicate postings.]



Greens See Politics Trumping Science as EPA Delays Chemical Assessment


By JEREMY P. JACOBS
Greenwire/New York Times
September 16, 2011

President Obama's decision to abandon U.S. EPA's new air pollution  
standards for ozone early this month sparked angry reactions from  
environmentalists and made headlines nationwide.

But Obama's administration made another controversial regulatory move  
the same day that few noticed: EPA delayed the release of its  
assessment of health risks posed by trichloroethylene (TCE),  
according to multiple sources, including an EPA official.

More than 10 years in the making, the health assessment is a step  
that might lead to standards on TCE, a common industrial solvent that  
is suspected of causing cancer.

EPA's delay frustrated green groups who accuse the White House of  
sidelining its environmental agenda to placate industry as Obama's re- 
election campaign ramps up. Environmentalists also say the White  
House is meddling in EPA's Integrated Risk Management System (IRIS)  
program, which drafted the TCE report and is supposed to be driven by  
science.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/09/16/16greenwire-greens-see- 
politics-trumping-science-as-epa-de-14349.html





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