Environmental Defense Fund: Trump EPA's Draft Evaluation of Cancer-Causing TCE Cuts Corners, Putting Kids' Health at Risk
February 22, 2020
February 22, 2020
NEW YORK, Feb. 22 -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following statement by Senior Health Scientis Jennifer McPartland:
"The Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its draft risk evaluation for the known human carcinogen trichloroethylene (TCE), which - as in previous draft risk evaluations - fails to conform with the nation's updated chemical safety law, won't sufficiently protect the public's or workers' health and reverses the agency's longstanding sc . . .
"The Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its draft risk evaluation for the known human carcinogen trichloroethylene (TCE), which - as in previous draft risk evaluations - fails to conform with the nation's updated chemical safety law, won't sufficiently protect the public's or workers' health and reverses the agency's longstanding sc . . .