A new report recommends several improvements the California Department of Pesticide Regulation could make to ensure its human health risk assessments for pesticides adhere to best practices.

Video of a webinar held on this report is now online on the page linked here. The EPA has increasingly embraced the use of sustainability tools and approaches; this report identifies successful applications of sustainability tools.

One of the ways that EPA’s IRIS program seeks public input is by holding public meetings to discuss IRIS assessments under development. To supplement the input, EPA asked the NRC to identify subject-matter experts to contribute to the discussions at IRIS public science meetings.

EPA should take greater advantage of existing data on inorganic arsenic when conducting its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessments, this report finds.           Image: IRRI/Flickr

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Marine Fisheries Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service should use a common approach to determine potential effects of pesticides on endangered or threatened species, a new report finds.

Two government-issued studies are unable to demonstrate whether people were harmed by groundwater contaminated with toxic pollutants at Fort Detrick, Md., a new report finds.