PEER Says EPA Ignored Recent Cancer Findings In New-Chemicals Review

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is asking EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) to investigate what it says is the TSCA new-chemicals office’s policy of refusing to consider new toxicity data on existing substances -- and argues the agency used that stance to ignore studies linking a common solvent to cancer. In a Dec. 21 complaint to OIG , the environmental whistleblower group claims that EPA in 2019 improperly declined to conduct a new risk assessment on the solvent...