The Science Advisory Board (SAB) released a report responding to EPA’s request for consultation developing a cumulative impacts assessment framework. The consultation responded to a draft report released in Jan. 2022 which addressed gaps and barriers to implementing cumulative impact research. The SAB recognized that communities are often exposed to multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors and individual stressors often fail to fully capture the total environmental burden for populations. EPA sought to gain a “better understanding of how to address the gaps and barriers in the application of cumulative impact assessment in the near-term, and how to improve the state of science in the long-term.”