- 12/09: Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter (Final Report) December 2009
- 12/09: Risk Assessment Methods for Workers, Farm Children, and Pesticides with No Food Uses
- 12/09: The Use of Recycled Tire Materials on Playgrounds & Artificial Turf Fields
- 5/09: EPA's Science Plan released for Activities Related to Dioxins in the Environment
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Draft Guidance & Tools Available for Public Comment and/or Peer Review
- 12/09: Draft ArcGIS Tools and Datasets for Modeling US Housing Density: ICLUS v1.2 GIS Tools and User's Manual (NCEA-Global)
- 11/09: Draft Framework for Categorizing the Relative Vulnerability of Threatened and Endangered Species to Climate Change (NCEA-Global)
- 11/09: Draft Review of the Toxicological Review of Trichloroethylene (IRIS)
- 9/09: Draft Review of the Toxicological Review of Hydrogen Cyanide and Cyanide Salts (IRIS)
- 9/09: Draft Review of the Toxicological Review of 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane (IRIS)
- 9/09: Draft Review of the Toxicological Review of Cis & Trans - 1,2-Dichloroethylene (IRIS)
- 9/09: Draft Review of the Toxicological Review of Trichloroacetic Acid (IRIS)
- 9/09: Draft Review of the Toxicological Review of Chloroprene (IRIS)
- 9/09: Standard Operating Procedures for Residential Pesticide Exposure Assessment (OPP)
- 8/09: Draft Review of the Toxicological Review of Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (IRIS)
- 8/09: Using Probabilistic Methods to Enhance the Role of Risk Analysis in Decision-Making With Case Study Examples (RAF)
- 7/09: Interim Guidance for Microarray-Based Assays: Data Submission, Quality, Analysis, Management and Training Considerations (OSA)
Risk Related Information for the Public
- Protection Team Launched to Explore Bee Deaths
- What you can do to protect your children from environmental risk
- Actions you can take to reduce lead in drinking water
- Aging and Environmental Health Fact Sheets
- Children’s environmental health online resources for health care providers
- General Consumer Publications (Safety & Exposure, Controlling Pests, Read the label first, Pest Control in Schools, Roach Control, Protecting Children)
- Industrial Materials Recycling
- Mercury-Containing Light Bulb (Lamp) Recycling
- Pesticide poison prevention resources
- Pharmaceuticals and personal care products as pollutants (PPCPs)
- Promoting Ecological Revitalization at Superfund Sites
- Recycle Your Cell Phone. It's an Easy Call
- RCRA Training at Your Desktop
- Safe Synthetic turf
- Schools Go Green Both Inside and Outside the Classroom
- Sun safety action steps
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History of Risk
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Meeting/Events
- 1/26: External Peer Review Workshop for the draft document, IRIS Toxicological Review of Ethyl Teritary Butyl Ether
- 1/26: External Peer Review Workshop for the draft document, IRIS Toxicological Review of Trichloroethylene
- 3/7-11: Society of Toxicology (SOT) 49th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT
- 3/17-19: An EPA Symposium on the Science of Disproportionate Environmental Health Impacts
- 4/27-28: The 2010 Toxicology and Risk Assessment Conference: focusing on the applications of computational toxicology (COMPTOX) for improving risk assessment practice
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