Renewing TCE Challenge, Industry Urges OMB To Ease EPA's Vapor Guide

November 25, 2014
Producers of the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) are continuing their push to limit use of a controversial EPA risk value for the substance, raising concerns with White House officials about how the agency's highly-anticipated vapor intrusion guidance will be implemented at sites contaminated with TCE, according to a source familiar with the meeting. The Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance, Inc. (HSIA), which has long argued EPA's September 2011 Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment for TCE is based on flawed science and...


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