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New EPA Administrator Michael Regan has a big job ahead to protect families from toxic chemicals

Today, Michael Regan, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, will be sworn in as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: asbestos, EPA, EPA Administrator, Liz Hitchcock, methylene chloride, PFAS, Michael Regan

E.P.A.’s “interesting” holiday gift: delaying bans on hazardous chemicals

This week the news broke that EPA had moved rules to ban certain uses of three dangerous chemicals from the “pending” column into the “long-term action” column in its regulatory agenda.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, EPA Administrator, trichloroethylene, methylene chloride, N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Trump administration

Groups call on EPA’s Beck to sit out chemical rulemaking

Today, five environmental health groups called on the EPA Office of General Counsel to require Dr. Nancy Beck, Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, to recuse herself from ongoing rulemaking on proposed bans of unsafe uses of three dangerous toxic chemicals.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: American Chemistry Council, Daniel Rosenberg, earthjustice, Environmental Health Strategy Center, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, EPA Administrator, Liz Hitchcock, NRDC, Nancy Beck, Scott Pruitt, Patrick MacRoy, Eve Gartner

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