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Comments on the reassessment of the United States Environmental Protection Agency of the risks of dioxin, implicating paper bleaching plants as a source of the toxic chemical. Measures taken by paper mills to reduce dioxin output; Regulation issued by the agency.

The article discusses the use of retrospective analysis on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules and regulations, including in gauging the accuracy of regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) on environmental policy. An overview of the use of RIA on the EPA's 1998 Cluster Rule, which was created to reduce pollutants and emissions from paper and pulp mills, is provided.

The article examines a request for comments that was opened by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning a draft rule that would exempt cisgenic organisms from the requirement to be registered with the agency prior to being field-tested or marketed. This led to a debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the regulation of transgenic plants, which is discussed by the author. A paper published by plant biologist Charles Gasser and colleagues is examined.

The Draft Report on the Environment released on 23 June sums up the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) view of the most solid scientific measurements of environmental quality across the country. Similar to a study issued last year by the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, the draft report identifies "indicators" that can be used to gauge nationwide trends in environmental quality. Like the Heinz study, the EPA report concludes that that data for many indicators aren't available for the entire nation or are limited in time. According to an internal EPA white paper obtained by the National Wildlife Federation, the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Management and Budget made major edits to a section of the report dealing with climate change.

Reports on the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) finding that dioxin, a byproduct of paper bleaching, incineration and other industrial processes, is a probable human carcinogen at levels found in the environment. Link to problems such as endotmetriosis in women and decreased sperm counts in men; Report as center of debate on environmental chemistry.

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