The executive of the former chemical industry, who fought with more powerful regulations under the Trump administration, has returned to play an important role in the Environmental Protection Agency, raising concerns about the impact of chemical safety regulations. Masu.
Nancy B. Beck, a poisoner and former executive of the American Chemical Council, a major trade group in the industry, was nominated as a senior adviser of the EPA Chemical and Safety Bureau. According to e -mail sent to the staff of the agency, the role is similar to the role she retained from 2017 to 2021.
It is thought that Dr. Beck is led by the first Trump administration that a wide range of pushbacks to chemical regulations and subsequent internal surveys are explained as political interference in agency's science and policy planning. Masu. For example, she rewrote the rules that made it difficult to track the effects of “eternal chemicals” related to cancer and make it difficult to adjust it.
She also helped to reduce proposed prohibitions to other substances, such as asbestos and methylene chloride, such as harmful chemicals found in paint thinner. Neither EPA nor Dr. Beck responded to the comments in this article.
Hanton and Ryuz Curse, a law firm, recently served by Dr. Beck, said she was no longer in the company. Dr. Beck is listed as a political appointment in the EPA staff directory.
Dr. Beck has joined Lin Anne Dekreba. He also worked at the American Chemical Council. Her career in the chemical industry by training as an environmental engineer has more than 30 years in Dupon, a chemical giant.
According to a recent report released by the EPA inspector office, the employees were asked to approve a new chemical substance based on severe evaluation and have been retaliated when concerned.
Dekleva did not respond to the comment request.
CHRIS JAHN, the highest executive officer of American Chemistry Council, said in the statement, “I am looking forward to working with all EPA staff supporting healthy science and strengthening American competitiveness and employment. He said he was looking forward to the policy to create.
The appointment of Dr. Beck and Dekreva is not expected to require a parliamentary approval or an appointment of a side job. Dr. Beck was previously appointed as the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2020, but accused of the Democratic Party and the environmental organization that used her former government's position to move forward the agenda of the chemical industry. After that, I did not reach the parliamentary voting.
Daniel Rosenberg, director of the federal poisoning policy of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a group of environmental defenders, states: He said that “weakening of health protection” from toxic chemicals is “bent at the corner.”
For the past four years, the Biden administration has attempted to catch up with the most dangerous chemical regulations in the market, as has been demanded based on the enhanced law in 2016.
The Biden administration is 10, including chemicals and asbestos and fire -resistant minerals used in cleaners and lubricants related to cancer and lubricant Proposal or ultimately limit dangerous chemicals. Lung disease. Currently, more than 80,000 chemicals on the market are not subject to environmental tests or regulations.
The Biden administration also sets the first federal standards for PFA's “eternal chemical substances” in drinking water and shifts the responsibility of purification of toxic sites from taxpayers to industries. Was specified as a harmful substance.
The chemical industry asked the Trump administration to roll back many of these rules. In a letter to Mr. Trump last month, the coalition of industry groups, including the Chemical Council, called for the reversal of the Biden administration's “non -scientific sledge hammer -a promot” to chemical policies.
In the letter, industry groups, especially, calling the Trump administration to revisit the PFA drinking standards and two PFAS chemicals as harmful. They also push the EPA to speed up new chemical reviews and roll back “overlap, and excess regulations” to roll back the new efforts to apply new restrictions on existing chemicals. He said it was causing.
