"The EPA’s preliminary conclusions that a widely used solvent poses no environmental risks “are misleading and must be modified,” the agency’s chemical advisers said Monday.

The Environmental Protection Agency misled the public when its draft analysis of the solvent n-methylpyrrolidone (NMP), claimed to examine discharges to air, water, sediment, land and biosolids, the agency’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals said in its critique.

“Water is the only ambient media considered in the environmental assessments,” the committee said. Indeed, the EPA reached its no environmental risk conclusion based on less than 0.5% of the available environmental data, it said."

Pat Rizzuto reports for Bloomberg Environment March 9, 2020. [2]