DESPITE FASTER EPA PROCESS, ACTIVISTS SEEK RELEASE OF DIOXIN RISK STUDY

摘要

Environmentalists are stepping up their calls for EPA to immediately release its final risk assessment for dioxin instead of sending it to the Science Advisory Board (SAB) for review after Administrator Lisa Jackson said May 26 that she plans to send it to SAB as part of her accelerated effort to finalize the assessment by the end of 2010.rnJackson in a May 26 letter to community members living near a dioxin-contaminated Dow Chemical Co. site in Midland, MI, announced the agency's commitment "to accelerate our scientific work on dioxin," adding that the Obama EPA's "goal is to issue a final dioxin assessment by the end of 2010."rnIn an accompanying press statement, the agency says it intends to issue a draft assessment by the end of this year and a final assessment by the end of 2010. The long-awaited dioxin risk assessment will be used to set cleanup and other regulatory standards.