Industry Hopes NAS' Study Defense Bolsters Bid To Soften EPA's TCE Limits

摘要

Chemical industry officials are pointing to a recently released National Academy of Sciences (NAS) letter defending its 2009 report on chemicals in drinking water at a North Carolina Marine Corps Base to bolster their efforts to soften EPA's draft risk assessment on the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE), one of the chemicals NAS studied. But the industry's past efforts have failed to win backing from EPA science advisers, who have generally backed EPA's risk assessment.