TSCA authorizes EPA to treat chemicals as a “category” if they are “similar ... of their similarities in persistence, mobility, and toxicity and the potential for all PFAS to cause the ...

US EPA struggles to replace animal tests for pesticide toxicity Nonanimal approaches have been available for years, but regulators are slow to adopt them by Britt E. Erickson ...

EPA toxicity drafts point that way. Updated: Nov. 20, 2021, 9:36 a.m. ... By law, the EPA is required to take economic and technical feasibility into account when finalizing MCLs.

The EPA said in the statement that it now plans to require PFAS makers to conduct and fund testing for 24 PFAS, a move it says, in effect, "covers 30 of the 54 petition chemicals." ...

EPA: PFAS tests let us ‘do more’ Regan was the DEQ secretary in 2015 when Chemours’ decades-long contamination of the Cape Fear River with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances became public.

EPA: PFAS tests let us ‘do more’ Regan was the DEQ secretary in 2015 when Chemours’ decades-long contamination of the Cape Fear River with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances became public.

In 2016, after IRIS assessed the toxicity of chloroprene, one of the chemicals coming out of the plant’s smokestacks, the people of St. John discovered the main source of their problems.

Only a small fraction of chemicals and other toxicants to which people are exposed have undergone formal assessment by the EPA to determine their potential health risks. A new National Academies ...

Congress orders the Environmental Protection Agency to review the toxicity ratings of some chemicals and improve its process for making such assessments. Login. Subscribe. News; Magazines. An ...

Food & Water Watch and several co-petitioners subsequently sued the EPA to compel action based on the mounting scientific evidence of toxicity when fluoride is ingested. “Today’s ruling represents an ...