Chemical Sector Seeks Regan Meeting To Address Fears Over Hot-Spot Study

December 28, 2021
The Louisiana Chemical Association (LCA) is asking EPA Administrator Michael Regan for a meeting next month to address concerns that the agency is planning to use methods and results from a high-profile media study identifying air-toxics hot spots that pose cumulative cancer risks around environmental justice (EJ) communities in its rulemakings. In a Dec. 8 letter to Regan, LCA raises concerns that the administrator indicated recently that EPA planned to use a recent analysis by ProPublica that claimed to...


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