Industry Asks EPA To Redo Strict Risk Studies For Several Key Chemicals

Industry groups are urging EPA to redo risk assessments for several controversial chemicals -- including the flame retardant decabrominated diphenyl ether (deca) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) -- that industry says are too strict, offering new data that they believe should prompt the agency to weaken its various risk studies. State environmental regulators and environmentalists meanwhile are asking EPA to undertake new risk assessments of some chemicals whose risks are unknown, including amphibole mineral fibers similar to asbestos. EPA's risk assessments...