SAB Says EPA Nutrient Criteria Guidance Is Inadequate, Not Defensible

A subcommittee of EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) says that currently used EPA guidance on how to develop nutrient criteria for water pollution limits is neither defensible nor adequate in a just-released draft report reviewing the agency method. The criticisms come as EPA is moving forward in Florida to develop numeric nutrient criteria in response to an activist lawsuit and as environmentalists are pushing the agency to craft numeric criteria elsewhere, arguing that risk-based, quantitative numeric criteria are more easily...