EPA Chemical Reviews Corrupted by Industry Influence Zero Chemicals Disapproved in Thoroughly Broken Risk Assessment Process

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : In a filing today with the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, scientists in the program submitted more than 60 pages of incriminating emails, text messages, and transcripts describing a rigged system in which -"EPA's chemical assessment process has itself become contaminated by a cadre of entrenched career managers ignoring science," stated PEER Science Policy Director Kyla Bennett, a scientist and attorney formerly with EPA, noting that the agency's Inspector General is evaluating PEER's first complaint regarding managers altering assessments without knowledge or consent of the assessors.
42% : "EPA needs to do what it has never done before - identify and remove responsible managers."
39% : The highly-touted system of chemical risk assessments mandated by statute just five years ago has been completely captured by industry, rendering it ineffective, according to a disclosure made by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists through Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

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