IRIS Staff Seek To Defend Program From Industry Challenges In NAS Review

摘要

Top staff leaders of EPA's embattled Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) are defending the program and outlining progress they say has been made to address past critiques from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and others, in the face of industry's ongoing criticism and questions over the program's future at the agency. "We do believe this work is really, really critical. And the option of walking away from it does not exist. There's no other program that can do the work we do better than we do," Tina Bahadori, director of EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) told members of a new NAS committee charged with reviewing EPA's progress in responding to calls from previous panels on how to improve the program.