Pressure Mounts For EPA To Weigh Regulatory Impacts Of Risk Estimates

EPA is facing increasing pressure to consider the regulatory impacts of its risk estimates given stakeholder concern that several prominent draft estimates that the agency is striving to advance in 2011 will drive expensive regulations that are impractical to implement as the safety estimates sometimes fall below naturally occurring levels. Several sources argue that the problem could be solved if the agency's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program, its premiere hazard assessment program, were required to consider the risk management...