[DBrow]

“rough-and-ready estimates are better than nothing and are often sufficient for policy-making.”

Uh-oh! Once a regulation gets put in, it stays. California declared isopropyl alcohol (you know, rubbing alcohol at the grocery store) to be a carcinogen, so every grocery, CVS, and Walgreens has a sign outside declaring that “this facility contains a chemical recognized to be a carcinogen”.

EPA will go so political with their “rough and ready estimates” that they’ll expand their power even more.

[mbj]

Informative - thank you!

BTT

[VanShuyten]

For reading later

[bravo whiskey]

the last thing these bastards need is more power.

[Carry_Okie]

There are scads of naturally occurring substances that would NEVER pass EPA assessment, produced by the thousands of tons all around us. Many have industrial uses, from pesticides to plastics. There are very few synthetic alternatives that pass EPA muster. Hence, banning some synthetic chemicals has a serious positive impact on their accepted alternatives, especially if they are patented.

This "heightened risk assessment" stinks of political payoffs.

[neverdem]

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X-ray, mammogram radiation may increase breast cancer risk for some women

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