Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
This bill bars the Environmental Protection Agency from using any assessments produced by the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program. Specifically, it prohibits use of IRIS assessments for rulemaking, regulatory/enforcement/permitting actions, and for informing air toxics assessments or mapping and screening tools.
Liberals emphasize lost public-health protections; conservatives emphasize reduced regulatory burden
Narrow, ideologically driven deregulatory measure likely to split along partisan lines; easier in a chamber favoring deregulatory bills.
This bill bars the Environmental Protection Agency from using any assessments produced by the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program.
Specifically, it prohibits use of IRIS assessments for rulemaking, regulatory/enforcement/permitting actions, and for informing air toxics assessments or mapping and screening tools.
Substantive curb on federal regulatory science with high partisan salience and no compromise features makes ultimate enactment unlikely absent favorable chamber majorities.
How solid the drafting looks.
Liberals emphasize lost public-health protections; conservatives emphasize reduced regulatory burden
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Liberals emphasize lost public-health protections; conservatives emphasize reduced regulatory burden
Likely to view the bill as a damaging limitation on EPA's ability to protect health and environment.
Sees it as removing an established scientific input used to justify regulations and safeguards.
Views the bill with concern about undermining evidence-based regulation, but recognizes problems if IRIS lacks transparency.
Sees need for balance between transparent science and regulatory certainty.
Likely to support the bill as a constraint on regulatory overreach and use of nontransparent assessments.
Sees it as protecting industry and permitting decisions from hidden or unreviewed science.
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Substantive curb on federal regulatory science with high partisan salience and no compromise features makes ultimate enactment unlikely absent favorable chamber majorities.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals emphasize lost public-health protections; conservatives emphasize reduced regulatory burden
Substantive curb on federal regulatory science with high partisan salience and no compromise features makes ultimate enactment unlikely abs…
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