Chemical Industry Urges EPA To Change Review Of Controversial Solvent

The chemical industry group American Chemistry Council (ACC) is urging EPA to delay the peer review of a draft risk assessment of 1-bromopropane (1-BP), arguing the members selected to serve on the panel reviewing the solvent are unqualified and raising concerns about the process the agency used to create a larger committee overseeing the peer review panel. ACC's requests related to the Chemical Safety Advisory Committee (CSAC) add to growing concerns from EPA critics about how the agency chooses who...