Echoing Dourson, House GOP Seeks To Return IRIS To EPA Program Offices

Echoing an approach advocated by former EPA toxics nominee Michael Dourson, House Republicans are preparing to mark up draft legislation that seeks to return both ongoing and new work of EPA's influential but often controversial risk analysis program to the agency's program offices -- similar to how the work was done in the program's early days. The draft bill's approach is winning praise from Dourson, echoing his long-standing call to expand the scientists participating in the functions of the Integrated...