Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : EPA Stands Firm on Electrical Report
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Environmental Protection Agency has rebuffed what some say was a White House attempt to weaken a report on health risks from household electrical and magnetic fields. The report says studies asserting that fields cause cancer “are biologically plausible.” White House science adviser D. Allan Bromley had urged the EPA to select some candidates for the panel from a list of scientists known to believe that the fields pose little or no risk. No one Bromley proposed was selected.
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