The 1991 Lead/copper Drinking Water Rule and the 1995 Decision Not to Revise the Arsenic Drinking Water Rule: Two Case Studies in EPA's Use of Science |
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... detoxification pathway for arsenic that becomes increasingly inefficient or perhaps saturated with increasing exposure . While these respondents would agree that EPA often makes regulatory decisions on the basis of weaker scientific ...
... detoxification pathway for arsenic that becomes increasingly inefficient or perhaps saturated with increasing exposure . While these respondents would agree that EPA often makes regulatory decisions on the basis of weaker scientific ...
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... detoxification . Because the agency was being sued for not meeting its regulatory deadline , the workgroup focused on research that could be conducted in 3-5 years but concluded that such research was unlikely to reduce uncertainty in ...
... detoxification . Because the agency was being sued for not meeting its regulatory deadline , the workgroup focused on research that could be conducted in 3-5 years but concluded that such research was unlikely to reduce uncertainty in ...
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... detoxification pathway for arsenic was framed as a false dichotomy between the linear , no - threshold dose - response model and the threshold or " hockey stick " model . By pointing out that there are any number of scientifically ...
... detoxification pathway for arsenic was framed as a false dichotomy between the linear , no - threshold dose - response model and the threshold or " hockey stick " model . By pointing out that there are any number of scientifically ...
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