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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/trump-put-a-koch-official-in-charge-of-americas-drinking-water">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/trump-put-a-koch-official-in-charge-of-americas-drinking-water</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ll the federal agencies that fall under</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">Donald Trump’s</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">purview, none embodies the administration’s unofficial mandate to do the exact opposite of its stated mission quite like the Environmental Protection Agency. For the last two years, the E.P.A.—which, as a reminder, is supposed to be protecting human health and the environment—has done everything in its power to turn the planet into an ashtray and convince Americans that toxic chemicals are actually totally fine to drink, breathe, and otherwise ingest, all in an effort to help companies secreting those chemicals maximize their profits. Which is to say, we probably should have</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a data-offer-url="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/former-koch-official-runs-epa-chemical-research-1136230" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" www.politico.com="www.politico.com" story="story" former-koch-official-runs-epa-chemical-research-1136230="former-koch-official-runs-epa-chemical-research-1136230" href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/former-koch-official-runs-epa-chemical-research-1136230" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">seen this one coming</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span></font></div><blockquote class="BaseWrap-sc-TwdDQ BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-eQHUIm hlNbBe bpDXqo blockquote-embed" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{" pattern="pattern" blockquoteembed="BlockquoteEmbed" data-include-experiments="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 40px auto; width: 540px; border-top: 2px solid rgb(35, 31, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-TwdDQ BlockquoteEmbedContent-hqPMVh hlNbBe cefCuj blockquote-embedcontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-top: 1rem; font-feature-settings: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.56em; overflow-wrap: normal;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Trump administration has placed a former Koch Industries official in charge of research that will shape how the government regulates a class of toxic chemicals contaminating millions of Americans’ drinking water—an issue that could have major financial repercussions for his former employer.</font></p></div></blockquote><blockquote class="BaseWrap-sc-TwdDQ BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-eQHUIm hlNbBe bpDXqo paywall blockquote-embed" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{" pattern="pattern" blockquoteembed="BlockquoteEmbed" data-include-experiments="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 40px; width: 540px; border-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-TwdDQ BlockquoteEmbedContent-hqPMVh hlNbBe cefCuj blockquote-embedcontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-top: 1rem; font-feature-settings: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.56em; overflow-wrap: normal;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">David Dunlap,</span> a deputy in E.P.A.’s Office of Research and Development, is playing a key role as the agency decides how to protect people from the pollution left behind at hundreds of military bases and factories across the country. .<b> .He spent the previous eight years as Koch Industries’ lead expert on water and chemical regulations, a position that typically includes helping companies to limit regulatory restrictions and liability for cleanups.</b></font></p></div></blockquote><div class="AdWrapper-fEXqQS krBdZf ad ad--in-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="adslot adslot--in-content" data-node-id="ywskm9" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 575px; max-width: 575px;"><div id="cns-ads-slot-type-in-content-0" class="cns-ads-stage cns-ads-slot-type-in-content cns-ads-slot-type-in-content-0 cns-ads-slot-state-filled cns-ads-slot-size-0" data-name="in_content_0" data-slot-type="in_content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 575px; z-index: 1;"><div id="in_content_0" class="cns-ads-container" data-node-id="ywskm9" data-google-query-id="CIWP3d-ljvMCFXM8AQodIFYFVQ" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px auto;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_3379/conde.vanityfair.native/in-content/news/article/1_0container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; text-align: center; visibility: hidden; min-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div></div></div></div></div><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dunlap was hired in October, according to previously undisclosed documents. Since then, he has been extremely busy, having reportedly been involved in high-level meetings that preceded the agency’s decision <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">not</em> to set drinking water limits for chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">which “have been linked with kidney and testicular cancer, as well as other ailments.” (In a statement, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">David Ross</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water, told the Hive: “Despite what is being reported, EPA has not finalized or publicly issued its PFAS management plan, and any information that speculates what is included in the plan is premature. The agency is committed to following the Safe Drinking Water Act process for evaluating new drinking water standards, which is just one of the many components of the draft plan that is currently undergoing interagency review.”) </span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">According to Politico,<b> Dunlap has been able to avoid a Senate confirmation hearing in which his prior work experience might come up because Trump has not officially nominated anyone to run to office.</b> (Dunlap’s <a data-offer-url="https://www.epa.gov/research/david-dunlap" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" www.epa.gov="www.epa.gov" research="research" david-dunlap="david-dunlap" href="https://www.epa.gov/research/david-dunlap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">official bio</a> on the E.P.A. Web site declines to mention any of his employers during his “more than 30 years” working for “private industry, trade associations and as an environmental consultant.”)<b> Currently, Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific, a paper and pulp conglomerate, is facing at least one class-action suit related to chemicals now under Dunlap’s purview.</b></font></font></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch’s various environmental crimes against humanity are laid out in several high-profile lawsuits over the past 20 years. According to <a data-offer-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111005022145/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" web.archive.org="web.archive.org" web="web" http="http" www.bloomberg.com="www.bloomberg.com" news="news" koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html="koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111005022145/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Bloomberg</a>, “Koch Industries was assessed more than $400 million in fines, penalties, and judgments” between 1999 and 2003, such as for dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of aviation fuel into a Minnesota wetland. “You want an independent, hardheaded scientific review of these issues; you don’t want somebody who is already taking the industry party line,” <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">Erik Olson,</span> who heads up the <b>Natural Resources Defense Council’</b>s public health work, told Politico. “There’s a legitimate threat there and, from my perspective, the conflicts of interest that [Dunlap] has having worked as a regulatory compliance director at Georgia-Pacific raises questions about whether he can make those objective decisions or should be recused.”</font></font></p><div class="Container-ineSfH hZaQAu" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{" pattern="pattern" h="h" data-include-experiments="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dunlap, of course, is unlikely to be replaced by someone without a host of conflicts of interest given that the guy currently running the E.P.A., </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">Andrew Wheeler,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is a walking, talking conflict of interest, having </span><a data-offer-url="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626525274/get-to-know-andrew-wheeler-ex-coal-lobbyist-with-inside-track-to-lead-epa" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" www.npr.org="www.npr.org" get-to-know-andrew-wheeler-ex-coal-lobbyist-with-inside-track-to-lead-epa="get-to-know-andrew-wheeler-ex-coal-lobbyist-with-inside-track-to-lead-epa" href="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626525274/get-to-know-andrew-wheeler-ex-coal-lobbyist-with-inside-track-to-lead-epa" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">served as a coal-lobbyist</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> prior to taking over the top job from departed Grift King </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;">Scott Pruitt.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> It is, in other words, par for the course.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Here’s a few other actions Trump’s E.P.A. has taken over the past two years:</span></font></font></font></p><ul class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 16px 0px 16px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Argued <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/trump-epa-just-going-to-let-beautiful-clean-coal-plants-regulate-themselves" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">coal plants should regulate themselves</a>;</font></font></font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Announced plans to <a data-offer-url="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-11-06/two-recent-epa-decisions-threaten-childrens-health-experts-say" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" www.pri.org="www.pri.org" stories="stories" two-recent-epa-decisions-threaten-childrens-health-experts-say="two-recent-epa-decisions-threaten-childrens-health-experts-say" href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-11-06/two-recent-epa-decisions-threaten-childrens-health-experts-say" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">roll back mercury regulations</a>;</font></font></font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Made it easier <a data-offer-url="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/climate/methane-emissions-epa.html" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" www.nytimes.com="www.nytimes.com" climate="climate" methane-emissions-epa.html="methane-emissions-epa.html" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/climate/methane-emissions-epa.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">to release methane into the air</a>;</font></font></font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tried to <a data-offer-url="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/06/epa-formaldehyde-warnings-blocked-696628" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" www.politico.com="www.politico.com" story="story" epa-formaldehyde-warnings-blocked-696628="epa-formaldehyde-warnings-blocked-696628" href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/06/epa-formaldehyde-warnings-blocked-696628" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">suppress a report</a> showing “most Americans inhale enough formaldehyde vapor in the course of daily life to put them at risk of developing leukemia and other ailments”</font></font></font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pushed for <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/donald-trump-asbestos" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">asbestos to make a comeback</a>; and</font></font></font></p></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Claimed <a data-offer-url="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/epa-actually-a-little-radiation-might-be-good-for-you.html?gtm=bottom>m=top" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" http="http" nymag.com="nymag.com" intelligencer="intelligencer" epa-actually-a-little-radiation-might-be-good-for-you.html="epa-actually-a-little-radiation-might-be-good-for-you.html" gtm="bottom>m=top" href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/epa-actually-a-little-radiation-might-be-good-for-you.html?gtm=bottom>m=top" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">a little radiation might actually be good for you</a>.</font></font></font></p></li></ul><p class="paywall" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You know, policies the Forgotten Man was hoping Trump would push through when they voted for him in 2016.</font></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EPA </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OCT. 3, 2018</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EPA: Actually, a Little Radiation Might Be Good For You</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Adam K. Raymond</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The EPA currently says there’s no safe level of radiation exposure. That may change.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The EPA is moving to weaken regulations concerning radiation exposure, a move that comes as little surprise given the Trump administration’s animosity toward regulating environmental dangers. But this change comes with something that the weakening of air and water quality standards does not: An argument that the bad stuff is actually good.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Current EPA regulations abide by the theory that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. As the EPA itself said as recently as March, “Current science suggests there is some cancer risk from any exposure to radiation.” There are, however, people who think this standard results in “unnecessary spending for handling exposure in accidents, at nuclear plants, in medical centers and at other sites,” the Associated Press reports.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>So the EPA has proposed a new rule:</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The proposed rule would require regulators to consider “various threshold models across the exposure range” when it comes to dangerous substances. While it doesn’t specify radiation, the release quotes [University of Massachusetts toxicologist </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Edward] Calabrese calling the proposal “a major scientific step forward” in assessing the risk of “chemicals and radiation.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Calabrese has some interesting ideas about radiation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Calabrese and his supporters argue that smaller exposures of cell-damaging radiation and other carcinogens can serve as stressors that activate the body’s repair mechanisms and can make people healthier. They compare it to physical exercise or sunlight.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mainstream scientific consensus on radiation is based on deceptive science, says Calabrese, who argued in a 2014 essay for “righting the past deceptions and correcting the ongoing errors in environmental regulation.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Jan Beyea is one of the mainstream scientists who disagrees with Calabrese. A physicist and expert on radiation exposure, Beyea tells the AP that the new EPA rule would result in “increases in chemical and radiation exposures in the workplace, home, and outdoor environment.” He said that the individual risk of cancer from radiation exposure would remain low, “but not the cumulative social risk.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The EPA is set to have a congressional hearing on the new rule Wednesday, with Calabrese as the lead witness.</b></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div>