“A withering new report from one of the country’s leading science authorities faults EPA’s approach to chemical risk evaluations under the Trump administration — a process the Biden EPA has already pledged to overhaul.
Advocates also say the report’s findings are an indicator of broader underlying issues at EPA during the Trump administration. Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, called the review “a stinging indictment of the agency’s management of risk evaluations” undertaken through TSCA.”