Abstract
Eschewing a complete revamp of the Environmental Protection Agency's risk assessment methodology, the National Research Council (NRC) has called instead for some refinements to the agency's conservative approach to estimating health risks posed by environmental pollutants. NRCs massive 600-plus page report, nearly three years in the making, places a stamp of approval on EPA's fundamentally sound approach to assessing risk. The report, for the most part, discounts concerns of critics who would make EPA's approach less conservative and, thus, the regulations less stringent. We took a hard look at these criticisms and found them to be invalid, says NRC panel member Adam Finkel, fellow at Resources for the Future's Center for Risk Management. The NRC study was mandated by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and was funded by EPA. It focuses on how EPA estimates risk associated with the 189 hazardous air pollutants listed in the law. But the ...
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