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Ten years of addressing children's health through regulatory policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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  • Author(s): Payne-Sturges D;Payne-Sturges D; Kemp D
  • Source:
    Environmental health perspectives [Environ Health Perspect] 2008 Dec; Vol. 116 (12), pp. 1720-4. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 Sep 30.
  • Publication Type:
    Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0330411 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0091-6765 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00916765 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Environ Health Perspect Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Research Triangle Park, N. C. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
    • Subject Terms:
      Child Welfare* ; Health Policy*; Child ; Humans ; United States ; United States Environmental Protection Agency
    • Abstract:
      Background: Executive Order (EO) 13045, Protection of Children From Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks, directs each federal agency to ensure that its policies, programs, activities, and standards address disproportionate environmental health and safety risks to children.
      Objectives: We reviewed regulatory actions published by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Federal Register from April 1998 through December 2006 to evaluate applicability of EO 13045 to U.S. EPA actions and consideration of children's health issues in U.S. EPA rulemakings.
      Discussion: Although virtually all actions discussed EO 13045, fewer than two regulations per year, on average, were subject to the EO requirement to evaluate children's environmental health risks. Nonetheless, U.S. EPA considered children's environmental health in all actions addressing health or safety risks that may disproportionately affect children.
      Conclusion: The EO does not apply to a broad enough set of regulatory actions to ensure protection of children's health and safety risks, largely because of the small number of rules that are economically significant. However, given the large number of regulations that consider children's health issues despite not being subject to the EO, other statutory requirements and agency policies reach a larger set of regulations to ensure protection of children's environmental health.
    • References:
      Fed Regist. 2002 Jan 14;67(9):1811-44. (PMID: 11800007)
      Fed Regist. 2006 Feb 6;71(24):6137-76. (PMID: 16502536)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: EPA’s policy on evaluating health risks to children; Executive Order 13045; children’s environmental health
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20081217 Date Completed: 20090102 Latest Revision: 20211020
    • Publication Date:
      20221213
    • Accession Number:
      PMC2599769
    • Accession Number:
      10.1289/ehp.11390
    • Accession Number:
      19079726