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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, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, methylene chloride, N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), trichloroethylene, 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, Eve Gartner, Liz Hitchcock, Nancy Beck, NRDC, Patrick MacRoy, Scott Pruitt

Why I’ll miss Lisa Jackson (and you should too)

By Andy Igrejas, Campaign Director As you may have heard, Lisa Jackson has announced that she is stepping down as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. No one can blame her. It’s an increasingly thankless job. But I’m going to miss her and you should too, as the storminess of her tenure has implications for […]

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: action, Andy Igrejas, bill, cancer, chemical industry, chemicals, Dow chemical, environment, environmental, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, EPA Administrator, exposure, families, health, Lisa Jackson, new, phthalates, policy, polluters, products, public health, regulations, regulators, retailers, safer, saferchemicals, state, store, toxic, toxic chemicals

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