GAO Finds EPA Toxics Risk Assessment Programs Still Need Revisions

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is continuing to highlight challenges with EPA’s approach to assessing and controlling industrial chemicals, especially the agency’s influential Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment program, including the programs in its latest list of “high risk” federal programs. While GAO says in a new report that EPA has made progress in addressing concerns related to the agency’s Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk assessment program and the IRIS program, it continues to include the programs on...