EPA Floats Draft Air Toxics Strategy To Identify Emerging Health Threats

EPA is floating a new draft strategy to improve the agency’s response to both existing and emerging health risks from air toxics, aiming to break out of regulatory “silos” and reach across the agency, and beyond, in its effort to identify problems earlier and respond to them in a more comprehensive way. “This is an attempt to get our house in order,” Mike Koerber, deputy director of EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS), told the agency’s Clean...