Scientists, Clinicians Charge EPA Underestimates Dichloroethanes’ Risks

A group of academic scientists and clinicians is calling for EPA to strengthen its draft TSCA analyses of a pair of widely used dichloroethane chemicals, charging that the agency is understating their risks and appears to be inconsistently applying its non-cancer risk approach and what it deems unreasonable risk. EPA’s toxics office has “failed to incorporate the best available science and relied on a number of scientifically unsupported methodologies that, if adopted, will result in acceptance of serious risks to...