The EPA outlined new tools and technology it plans to use to review the risks of new chemicals, part of an effort to address criticism about slow assessments, lack of transparency, and deficient consideration of potential hazards.
The goal is to ensure new chemicals’ safety while allowing their innovations “to improve the cars we drive or the chips used in our computers, to create the newest iPhone, or unlock a green energy breakthrough to help solve the climate crisis,” Michal Ilana Freedhoff, EPA’s assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention, said Monday at a meeting of EPA’s Board of ...
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