EPA OIG, OAR Remain At Odds Over Air Toxics Risk Communication Plans

EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) continues to disagree with the agency’s air office over how to communicate air toxics risks to the public, despite a long-running dialogue between the OIG and the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) that has partially resolved some points of contention. In a Nov. 29 letter , Inspector General Sean O’Donnell tells OAR acting chief Joe Goffman that recent additional steps the air office has proposed in a memo to improve risk communication do...