Environmentalists seek integrity review of shelved formaldehyde analysis

Environmentalists and former EPA staff are backing calls from Democrats for EPA's scientific integrity officer to review alleged political interference in top officials' decision to shelve the long-running draft formaldehyde assessment because it was no longer a priority to program offices, citing internal emails showing that top career staff believed it was a priority. “Significant evidence that is already public -- combined with information recently obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists [UCS] through the Freedom of Information Act --...