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US Senators Say EPA Study Fundamentally Flawed (Picture)
US senators take issue with EPA’s final TCE assessment
It uses ‘fundamentally flawed’ study, they say
Chemical Watch
July 1, 2014
Three senior Republican senators have questioned the science used in the US EPA’s final work plan chemical assessment (CW 26 June 2014) of trichloroethylene (TCE).
The senators are David Vitter, ranking member of the Senate Public Works Committee, James Inhofe, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Mike Crapo, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health.
In a letter to the EPA assistant administrator Jim Jones, the lawmakers accused the staff of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) of “yet again ‘cherry picking’ scientific data in what appears to be a continued effort to further the EPA’s ‘windsock’ approach for catering to the media at the expense of protecting human health and the environment.” MOREHERE
