May 25, 2012

The National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens, bad for whose bus

...the National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens (RoC). The House Republicans' scrutiny of the RoC coincides with industry objections to the Report's listing of styrene as a possible carcinogen. It also follows a strategy common to previous debates over chemical regulation - that of sowing doubt about scientific findings in hopes of averting action on a hazardous substance. 

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