Questionable Risk Decisions under ChAMP: The Fatty Nitrogen Derived Cationics Category
| U.S. Commerce chief plans clean energy trip to China. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said on Friday he will travel to China this year to promote sales of U.S. clean energy goods as part of the Obama administration’s effort to fight global warming. |
| Questionable Risk Decisions under ChAMP: The Fatty Nitrogen Derived Cationics Category Cal Baier-Anderson, Ph.D., is a Health Scientist and Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.This example raises some new issues as well as some we discussed in the earlier examples: EPA relies on a highly flawed "category approach" that ignores major differences in the properties and structures of the 13 members of this category. It [.] |
| Pesticides blamed for some childhood brain cancers A new study finds that children who live in homes where their parents use pesticides are twice as likely to develop brain cancer versus those that live in residences in which no pesticides are used. Herbicide use appeared to cause a particularly elevated risk for a certain type of cancer. |
| Questionable risk decisions under ChAMP: Chlorobenzenes Category Cal Baier-Anderson, Ph.D., is a Health Scientist and Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.Our analysis of EPA’s risk decision under ChAMP for this category of toxic chemicals vividly illustrates how EPA has failed to adopt a health-protective approach to its screening of HPV chemicals. Rather, it misclassifies or understates these chemicals’ hazards, asserts that [.] |