“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no obligation to share its study of the risks of inhaling formaldehyde with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, because the document sought is only a draft, a Washington federal court ruled.
Kevin Bell, staff counsel for PEER, said in a statement Monday that it has been 30 years since the EPA completed any assessment of the safe exposure levels for formaldehyde.
“At the current rate, it will be several more years before EPA is likely to provide any assistance in protecting workers and consumers from unsafe and potentially lethal levels of exposure,” Bell said.”
