EPA Provides Public with Easier Access to Chemical Information

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, introduced a new web-based tool that will enable the public to search for and have easy access to health and safety studies on industrial chemicals. As part of administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s continued efforts to enhance EPA's chemical management program and increase transparency, the chemical data access tool allows users to conduct a chemical-specific search for health and safety studies that have been submitted to the agency under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The tool will also be added to Data.Gov, a website developed by the Obama Administration to provide public access to important government information.