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A new report from the National Research Council (NRC) identifies improvements EPA could make to enhance its risk assessment process, which the committee said is bogged down by unprecedented challenges ...

On November 24, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the key default values that it uses in its risk assessments of ...

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EPA's newly revised process for assessing health and environmental risks for chemicals enables chemical manufacturers and federal agencies to inject “corporate influence” into determinations that will ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) commitment to its controversial Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) value for Ethylene Oxide (EO) remains unwavering as two recent developments ...

It takes 10 to 12 years and around $300 million to bring a new pesticide, including herbicides, fungicides or insecticides, to market. While much of that time and money is spent in a lab and on ...

EPA has addressed these two issues through its “Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment,” first published in 1986, updated in 2005, and still in place today. It begins by setting out five categories ...

As the study finds, EPA’s reliance on honey bee data from lab studies focused on LD50 does not accurately capture the threats that pesticides pose in the real world to thousands of other bee species ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...