Toxics: Free-market group targets EPA chemical programs

A free-market think tank that vigorously opposes EPA rules is urging Congress to address two non-regulatory EPA chemical programs -- the influential Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) chemical analysis program and the voluntary Safer Choice program that promotes safer chemicals -- which the group says have significant regulatory and market effects. In a Dec. 20 blog post , CEI's Angela Logomasini says that Congress “can address problems associated with such programs by defunding them or by bringing them under the...