The Government Accountability Office said the Environmental Protection Agency regularly missed deadlines for testing chemicals.
by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
The GAO found that the EPA missed almost every deadline for reviewing new and existing chemicals. Even the reviews of the first 10 chemicals that began in June 2017 — including asbestos and methylene chloride — were not fully completed as of the end of 2022. EPA blamed the delays on a lack of staff and said it didn’t have the money to hire the people necessary to conduct the reviews in a timely manner. GAO said the agency was taking steps to meet the deadlines.
Get politics news like this right to your inbox with the N.J. Politics newsletter. Add your email below and hit"subscribe"Before he died in June 2013, Lautenberg had made revising the chemical safety act one of his top priorities. “I wish he was here to see this day come,” his widow, Bonnie Lautenberg, said after the bill signing.
The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act required the EPA to test chemicals using “sound and credible science” and impose regulations if posed a health risk. It gave the EPA the power“The law provides critical safeguards against toxic chemical exposures for both workers and the public, but those added protections have meant significantly more work for EPA and its staff,” said one of the lawmakers who attended the bill signing, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-6th Dist.
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