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August 21, 2020

Jeff Morris, Former OPPT Director, Describes Community-Based Exposures and Susceptibilities as a Social Justice Challenge for TSCA Implementation

Lynn L. Bergeson Carla N. Hutton

Jeff Morris, former Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), wrote a column published on August 18, 2020, by Chemical Watch.  In the column, “Expert Focus:  Community-based exposures and susceptibilities — a social justice challenge for TSCA implementation,” Morris discusses how risk evaluations conducted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) provide an opportunity to address community exposures and susceptibilities that are not otherwise covered in assumptions made about exposures in the general population.  Morris proposes ways that TSCA stakeholders can take “leadership roles in discussion, and action, on understanding potential exposures and susceptibilities of communities near chemical facilities and, where they exist, how they can be incorporated into TSCA risk evaluations.”