EPA’s Inspector General Recommends Review of Ethylene Oxide and Chloroprene Standards to Address Health Risks, Environmental Justice Concerns
By EsqSocial Corporation 10/05/21
On May 6, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published the results of an audit examining EPA’s response to updated cancer risk values for two chemicals: ethylene oxide (“EtO” or “EO”) and chloroprene. OIG is an independently-funded office within the EPA that performs investigations to prevent “waste, fraud, and abuse” in EPA programs. Its report found that, despite EPA’s identifying purportedly elevated cancer risks from chloroprene...
By: King & Spalding