Heartland

EPA’s Chemical Risk Assessments Rely on Flawed Science, Study Finds

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a program assessing the toxicity of chemicals and any risk from exposure to them, often produces assessments ...
EHS Today

NRC Report Suggests Improvement for EPA Risk Assessment Process

A new report from the National Research Council (NRC) identifies improvements EPA could make to enhance its risk assessment process, which the committee said is bogged down by unprecedented challenges ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

EPA Should Conduct Ecological Risk Assessment of UV Filters Found in Sunscreen to Understand Their Impact on Aquatic Environments, Says New Report

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should conduct an ecological risk assessment of ultraviolet (UV) filters, the active ingredient used in sunscreens, says a new report from the ...
JD Supra

EPA Releases Draft Risk Evaluations, Draft Hazard Assessments, and Supporting Documents for Four Chemicals

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 10, 2026, that it is advancing its review of four chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) — ...

EPA replaces PFAS sewage sludge assessment, drawing concern over 'forever chemicals'

The EPA is backing away from a scientific review of "forever chemicals" in fertilizer made from sewage. Critics say the move could put farms and drinking water at risk.
Acsh.org

EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System: A Good Idea Gone Bad

The EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) was founded in 1985 to assure scientific integrity and present intra-Agency consensus on health effects information on environmental chemicals. It ...
Beyond Pesticides

Study of Pesticide Risk in Wild Bee Species Highlights EPA Risk Assessment Inadequacies

(Beyond Pesticides, August 23, 2024) A study in Science of The Total Environment calculates and compares pesticide risk in 594 wild bee species associated with crops in North America. Current ...
C&EN

US EPA delayed, dropped chemical risk assessments

Top officials at the US Environmental Protection Agency have halted evaluations of the human health risks of nine chemicals, including formaldehyde, a March 4 report by the Government Accountability ...
NPR

How the EPA assesses health risks after the Ohio train derailment

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing about its remediation plan for cleaning up chemicals in and around East Palestine, Ohio. It follows the derailment of a ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Sustainability and the U.S. EPA

As described in Chapter 4, risk assessment is an important analytic tool used to evaluate the effects of environmental stressors on ecosystem and human health. This tool has been applied over the past ...
FedScoop

EPA says it’s ‘on target’ to complete process for cybersecurity risk assessment

The Environmental Protection Agency's logo is displayed on a door at its headquarters on March 16, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency ...