The Environmental Protection Agency's logo is displayed on a door at its headquarters on March 16, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) commitment to its controversial Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) value for Ethylene Oxide (EO) remains unwavering as two recent developments ...

The career scientist hired by the Obama administration to revitalize U.S. EPA’s troubled chemical-testing effort could soon be forced to shut it down. The scientist hired in the Obama administration’s ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a potential reset of the risk evaluation process under the Toxic Substances Control Act. If adopted, the proposal would roll back certain ...

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The agency named the next five chemicals it thinks should face an extensive risk assessment process. EPA has announced the next five chemicals it will launch a lengthy risk review process for, a move ...

EPA has addressed these two issues through its “Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment,” first published in 1986, updated in 2005, and still in place today. It begins by setting out five categories ...

As the study finds, EPA’s reliance on honey bee data from lab studies focused on LD50 does not accurately capture the threats that pesticides pose in the real world to thousands of other bee species ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — A D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday rejected an industry-led effort joined by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to overturn a federal cancer risk assessment for ethylene oxide, a ...

For 25 years, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used their broad expertise in human health risk assessment, ecology, radiation protection, toxicology and information management to ...

Farmworker advocates, environmental organizations and public health groups have taken the U.S. Environmental Protection ...