Two Industry Executives Join E.P.A. to Help Oversee Chemical Rules
Source: New York Times
A former chemical-industry executive who fought against stronger regulations under the first Trump administration is returning to take a critical role at the Environmental Protection Agency, raising concerns of corporate influence on chemical safety regulations.
Nancy B. Beck, a toxicologist and former executive at the American Chemistry Council, the industry’s main trade group, has been named a senior adviser to the E.P.A.’s Office of Chemical Safety, a role similar to the one she held from 2017 to 2021 helping to oversee chemical policy, according to an email sent to agency staff.
Dr. Beck is credited with leading a wide-ranging pushback against chemical regulations during the first Trump administration, as well as what a subsequent internal investigation described as political interference in agency science and policymaking. She rewrote rules, for example, that made it harder to track the health consequences of a “forever chemical” linked to cancer, and therefore to regulate it.
She also helped scale back proposed bans on other substances like asbestos and methylene chloride, a harmful chemical found in paint thinners. Neither the E.P.A. nor Dr. Beck responded to requests for comment for this article.
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The chemical companies are already knowingly poisoning us.
Trump is further enabling them.
Another chapter in the horror story that is unfolding.
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First the air we breathe, and now everything else.
Two and a half days in, and I am utterly exhausted.
I know it's the point, the chaos he's creating.
Where is Karma, and/or cholesterol, when you need it?