As you are likely aware, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has undertaken a review of formaldehyde to assess whether it poses an unreasonable risk to human health or the environment. This review is being conducted as part of the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program under the Toxic Substances Control Act. A recent editorial written by Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) on the FOX News website, argues that the EPA is weaponizing IRIS “to exaggerate the health risks of everyday chemicals and help political agencies justify innovation-killing restrictions.”

Grothman specifically calls out the EPA review of formaldehyde as problematic stating, “If IRIS’s impossible standard for formaldehyde becomes the basis for new regulations, companies that produce formaldehyde could be subject to sweeping litigation. This would jeopardize more than a million jobs and $70 billion in payroll costs, not to mention the catastrophic impact it could have on our national security.”

Read Grothman’s editorial here.