Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is also glad that the EPA is adding positions to the OCSPP, but “that division is so broken that I fear throwing more people in there, particularly people who may not have expertise in doing risk assessments, will be a disaster,” she says. “I also do not think this should be done at the expense of losing people at ORD and in the [environmental justice] arena.”
“Of course, the devil is in the details, which we don’t know yet,” Bennett says.