The public’s attention to environmental justice has refocused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on cumulative assessment of risk and impacts. Concordantly, EPA recently finalized its ...
Risk Assessment (RA) is a tool used by the EPA to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and ecological receptors from chemical contaminants and other stressors that may be ...
Our nation's environmental laws developed piecemeal without a holistic view of the totality of environmental and other stressors that an individual or community may confront. Statutes adopted in the ...
While increased enforcement resulting from increased federal focus on environmental justice (EJ) issues poses risk to many businesses, how (and perhaps whether) the US Environmental Protection Agency ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from the National ...
WASHINGTON, DC, December 18, 2008 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in ...
Maximum cumulative ratio (MCR) is a person's cumulative exposure to multiple chemicals divided by the maximum chemical-specific exposure where exposure is expressed on a toxicologically equivalent ...
On November 14, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency informed the National Academy of Sciences that it should terminate all work on this activity. This activity has ended, and the pre-publication ...
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 ...
Matthew Currell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from ...
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