Amid Key Split, Most CHPAC Members Urge Reduced Plastics Production

In a high-profile split among the group, nearly all members of EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) are urging EPA to advance policies that reduce plastics production and use in order to address exposures of concern to children’s health, though one member argues that the science is not developed enough to back such policies. In a Nov. 4 response to EPA’s November 2024 charge questions about plastics and children’s health, the committee developed two letters, noting that this approach...