Dourson Calls On EPA To Expand IRIS Despite Program's Uncertain Future

摘要

Michael Dourson, the controversial former nominee to lead EPA's toxics office, is calling on the agency to improve and expand its influential Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) chemical assessment program, even as the program faces an uncertain future with the Trump administration considering reducing or eliminating it entirely. "I really encourage EPA to think deeply about IRIS and how to take it to the next level," Dourson said during a Jan. 25 interview with Inside EPA, shortly after news broke that Dourson is leaving his role at the agency as senior adviser on toxics to Administrator Scott Pruitt. Dourson took the position shortly after President Donald Trump nominated him to serve as EPA's assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.