NAS Defends EPA's Human Exposure Research Supporting Air Standards

March 28, 2017
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in a new report defends EPA's controlled human exposure research program as providing essential data to support Clean Air Act ambient standards and says it should continue with certain recommended improvements, a potential setback for Trump administration critics of the air standards. NAS' March 28 report , “Controlled Human Inhalation Exposure [CHIE] Studies at EPA,” concludes that “EPA’s procedures are consistent with and indicative of ethical approaches to human-subjects research. . . . The...


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