EPA Revises Children’s Health Policy, Broadening Its Use In Agency Analyses

EPA has for the first time revised its 1995 Policy on Children’s Health, intended to ensure consideration of children’s unique exposures and vulnerability to contaminants in the environment is included in agency analyses and decision-making, resulting in an expanded approach that defines childhood and requires child-specific analyses. “The EPA' s policy is informed by the scientific understanding that children may be at greater risk to environmental contaminants than adults due to differences in behavior and biology and that the effects...