The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is responsible for assessing health risks at Superfund sites and other hazardous waste locations across the country. It is an enormous job that calls for expertise in a very wide range of scientific fields—from veterinary medicine to meteorology. Sometimes, with the best knowledge available, the risks are uncertain. And the agency has lost several hundred staff positions over the last few years.
In addition, the agency has faced criticism from Congressional members and elsewhere that it is too driven by government and industry desires to minimize potential health risks from toxic exposures.
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