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Bob Sussman

In time of coronavirus, is E.P.A. giving polluters a free pass?

As we all navigate the rapid changes and uncertainty of this challenging time, the need to keep our social distance has certainly altered the way we work—but it has not changed the urgency of the work that we do to protect Americans’ health from toxic chemicals.

If anything, we know it’s now more important than ever – people whose immune systems are compromised because they are suffering from cancers and other underlying illnesses that have been connected to toxic chemicals (like PFAS) are among the most vulnerable to the novel coronavirus.

But we heard loud and clear last week: the Trump administration is not letting up on its anti-regulatory agenda during the pandemic.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Bob Sussman, coronavirus, COVID-19, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Liz Hitchcock, pollution, science

EPA is shirking its responsibility to require chemical safety testing

What we don’t know about chemicals CAN hurt us.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Bob Sussman, EPA, Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, Trump administration, TSCA

Protecting the safety net for new chemicals under TSCA

Few aspects of the new TSCA law have been at more risk than the section 5 premanufacture notice (PMN) program, which provides critical safeguards against unsafe new chemicals entering commerce. The amended law put considerably more teeth in this program, but from day one, the chemical industry has sought to block EPA from implementing the tougher review process that the law required.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Bob Sussman, Daniel Rosenberg, PMN, SNUR, TSCA

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