Activists Seek Stricter EPA Dioxin Cleanup Levels, Citing Cancer Risks

摘要

Environmentalists are challenging EPA's new interim screening levels for remediating dioxins in soil, arguing that the agency's decision to base its levels on non-cancer effects instead of stricter cancer effect numbers is not scientifically justified - though EPA says the stricter numbers would require additional analyses at Superfund sites to develop appropriate cleanup levels.rnThe Center for Health Environment and Justice (CHEJ), which has long focused on dioxin contamination, released a Jan. 4 statement praising EPA's cancer-based risk numbers as showing "a new commitment to scientific integrity in the EPA's approach to evaluating dioxin contamination."