Industry, GOP Lawmakers Pressure EPA To Scrap IRIS Risk Program

Scores of industry groups are urging the Trump EPA to “disband” the agency’s integrated risk information system (IRIS) hazard assessment program and to prohibit use of the program’s risk values in any regulatory work, as House and Senate Republican lawmakers reintroduce legislation to bar use of IRIS in regulation. In a Jan. 27 letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin prior to his Senate confirmation, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) led a coalition of over 80 industry groups in urging Zeldin...