Environmental Protection Agency Articles & Analysis
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The Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) Note Number 3, revised in May 2022, includes detailed information about the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) development of modified screening levels based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) Regional Screening Levels (RSLs) for human health risk assessment at ...
According to Department of Labor statistics published in Business Insider, the dental profession ranked number one for the poorest air quality. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency indicates that indoor air quality can be five times more toxic than outdoor air. ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency has responsibility for assessing endocrine activity of more than 10 000 chemicals, a task that cannot reasonably be achieved solely through use of available mammalian and nonmammalian in vivo screening assays. ...
But the information presented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is clearer and more direct than we’ve ever seen at a major policy level. ...
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Under the terms of the Clean Water Act, criteria for the protection of human health [Human Health Ambient Water Quality Criteria (HHWQC)] are traditionally derived using United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)‐recommended equations that include parameters for exposure assessment. To derive “adequately ...
Various aquatic bioassays using one of several fish species have been developed or are in the process of being developed by organizations like the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development for testing potential endocrine disrupting chemicals. ...
This team has developed research directed at much higher performing hospitals - targeting both energy performance and interior environmental quality, for little capital investment in six of the most populous and diverse climate regions in the USA. ...
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing entitled “Oversight Hearing on Disease Clusters and Environmental Health.” Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Senator Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health Subcommittee, introduced the Strengthening ...
Accordingly, identification and abatement of mold in existing buildings and the prevention of reoccurrence during construction and demolition is necessary to prevent adverse health consequences, maintain property values, and decrease construction defect claims. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the majority of states have ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final list of chemicals in the first group of substances that will be screened under the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP).1 Development of this list caps a long, thoughtful, and arduous administrative process that spans over a decade. ...
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, occupants of treated homes can have exposures up to 25 times those found in the average American diet. (6). ...
Climate change, interacting with changes in land use and demographics, will affect important human dimensions in the United States, especially those related to human health, settlements and welfare. The challenges presented by population growth, an aging population, migration patterns, and urban and coastal development will be compounded by changes in temperature, precipitation, and extreme ...
Mercury is one of the 12 toxic pollutants identified by the US Environmental Protection Agency and can be toxic at low levels in the environment. ...
Protecting human health is a primary goal of environmental policy and economic evaluation of health can help policy-makers judge the relative worth of alternative actions. Economists use two distinct approaches in normatively evaluating health. Whereas environmental economists use benefit-cost analysis supported by monetary valuation in terms of ...
Citation: Use of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Models to Quantify the Impact of Human Age and Interindividual Differences in Physiology and Biochemistry Pertinent to Risk (Final Report). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-06/014A. ...
The issue of testing pesticides using human subjects has created one of the most explosive environmental debates to arrive in Washington in years. Although the National Academy of Sciences had given a green light to such testing, the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly canceled a proposed pesticide exposure study ...
It is therefore not surprising that U.S. legislators and policy-makers continue to seek avenues for addressing cancer risks attributable to environmental pollution. This month, EM focuses on the issue of cancer risks associated with air pollution, and includes both information and opinions from several different perspectives. ...
On April 26, 2004, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requiring manufacturers and processors of 34 chemicals to conduct in vitro dermalabsorption-rate testing. ...
The last eight years have witnessed an unprecedented number of health initiatives dedicated to protecting infants and children. This commitment is found in virtually every aspect of federal policymaking and rulemaking, from expansive legislation to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy. EPA’s implementation of the ...
Dioxins, and dioxin-like compounds which may have similar effects, are found in all environmental compartments, are persistent and, being fat soluble, tend to accumulate in higher animals, including humans. ...