House Democrats slap EPA with subpoena over chemical risk program documents

The Environmental Protection Agency is facing a subpoena from House Science Committee Democrats as a tense back-and-forth over one of the agency’s chemical risk programs escalates.

Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat, issued the subpoenas Friday, according to the agency, following through on threats made last month. Johnson is seeking documents she says the EPA has been holding back related to Trump officials’ decision to reorganize its Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, program, which studies the risks chemicals pose to human health.