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</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" style="">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" style=""><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" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><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></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><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"><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></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" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><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="background-color: transparent; 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" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Claimed <a data-offer-url="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/epa-actually-a-little-radiation-might-be-good-for-you.html?gtm=bottom&gtm=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&gtm=top" href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/epa-actually-a-little-radiation-might-be-good-for-you.html?gtm=bottom&gtm=top" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Koch official runs EPA chemical research</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Previously undisclosed documents obtained by POLITICO show David Dunlap began working on the issue almost immediately upon arriving at EPA in October.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By ANNIE SNIDER 02/04/2019 </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Dunlap, a deputy in EPA’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.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>President Donald Trump has not nominated anyone to run the office. That effectively allows Dunlap to avoid the Senate confirmation process while overseeing a central part of EPA's work that could impose cleanup costs on companies that have used the chemicals, including major Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific. The paper and pulp conglomerate is already facing at least one class-action lawsuit related to the chemicals.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Previously undisclosed documents obtained by POLITICO show Dunlap began working on the issue almost immediately upon arriving at EPA in October. He had 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.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democratic lawmakers and environmentalist say the prevalence of administration officials who came from the chemicals industry contributes to its hands-off approach to the chemicals, which are appearing in drinking water supplies across the country to rising public alarm. Known as <b>per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS,</b> the chemicals have been linked with kidney and testicular cancer, as well as other ailments.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Both Republicans and Democrats have urged a stronger approach from acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler — who faces a confirmation vote in the Senate Environment Committee Tuesday — but he has stopped short of using all the tools in the agency's arsenal.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just last week, POLITICO reported the agency has decided against setting drinking water limits for the two most well-understood chemicals in the class in a forthcoming plan for the chemicals, and the new documents show Dunlap was involved in high-level meetings preceding that decision.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said Dunlap’s hiring adds to his concerns about the Trump administration's handling of the issue.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Coming on the heels of Mr. Wheeler’s failure to commit to setting a drinking water standard for PFAS, this potential conflict of interest within the agency paints a bleak picture about EPA’s priorities on chemical safety with respect to these particular substances. I look forward to learning more about Mr. Dunlap’s role in the development of EPA’s PFAS management plan,” Carper said in a statement.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dunlap’s ethics agreement bars him from “participating in any particular matter involving specific parties” related to Koch Industries, but the agency’s ethics officials have typically taken a narrow interpretation of such prohibitions. And while Dunlap voluntarily recused himself from work on formaldehyde, which Georgia-Pacific produces, the agreement includes no mention of PFAS.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Koch Industries spokesperson David Dziok said that Dunlap worked on a broad set of issues related to water and chemicals during his time with the company, but that "PFAs were not part of the portfolio he managed."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dunlap did not respond to a request for comment. EPA did not answer specific questions about Dunlap’s involvement in the agency’s work and his potential conflict of interest.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Dunlap's calendars, obtained by POLITICO under the Freedom of Information Act, show he participated in at least nine PFAS meetings in his first six weeks on the job, including an Oct. 22 briefing with Wheeler, chief of staff Ryan Jackson and other top political officials. At the time, agency leaders were writing a wide-ranging chemical management plan in which they decided not to set a drinking water standard for the two specific chemicals — PFOA and PFOS. That plan has been under review at the White House since December.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>While those two older chemicals are no longer used in the U.S., EPA estimates that there are between 5,000 and 10,000 similar chemical compounds, used in everything from nonstick cookware to water resistant jackets to microwave popcorn bags</b>. Industry has argued that the newer compounds are less dangerous to human health, but scientists say there is reason to worry that the entire class of PFAS compounds poses a risk. Public health advocates are pushing EPA to regulate the chemicals as a class, arguing that evaluating each one individually will take decades, if it happens at all.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The calendars also show Dunlap helping to shape EPA's approach to these newer compounds that are still in use. </b>He participated in an Oct. 31 call with career staff in his division on two chemicals, GenX and PFBS, for which they were preparing health assessments. Research has shown those new chemicals can also be dangerous, and that those dangers may be greater when people are exposed to them in combination with other chemicals, as they often occur in drinking water. Environmental groups have said the chemicals should be evaluated together to account for those risks, but EPA took the opposite approach when it released the GenX and PFBS health assessments two weeks later.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Then on Nov. 5, Dunlap was scheduled to join a call with staff scientific leads to discuss the next slate of chemicals for which they would prepare health assessments. Dunlap's former employer has a stake in which chemicals EPA focuses on: A company spokesperson said Georgia-Pacific may still be using PFAS in its products, as it has in the past, but she would not say which specific chemicals it uses. There are very few legal requirements for companies to tell the public or regulators which chemicals they use in their processes and at which factories</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In response to questions about Dunlap's role, an EPA spokesperson said, "Addressing PFAS is an Agency-wide effort with David Ross, the EPA’s Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water, serving as the EPA staff lead on addressing PFAS."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">However, the research overseen by Dunlap lays the groundwork for any regulatory decisions Ross is coordinating. EPA officials have underscored the importance of research to their PFAS work in a number of public presentations, including briefings to the agency's Science Advisory Board and at meetings in affected communities.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Georgia-Pacific, which manufactures products like Brawny paper towels and Dixie cups, has not only used PFAS in some of its food packaging products, but has also owned facilities where the chemicals were disposed, creating a cleanup liability that could prove costly.</b></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The company is already facing a class-action lawsuit from citizens in the town of Parchment, Mich., where last summer state officials discovered the chemicals in drinking water at concentrations as much as 26 times higher than EPA’s recommended limit. That contamination was traced to a paper mill that Georgia-Pacific previously had a stake in.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Georgia-Pacific spokesperson Karen Cole said the company believes that “only a very small percentage of our food wrap and related products — if any” contain the chemicals today, and noted that PFOA and PFOS were phased out of use in food wrappers "several years ago." She said Georgia-Pacific does not apply the PFAS itself, but gets paper from a supplier that in some cases has previously treated it with PFAS.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We are currently evaluating past manufacturing practices to better understand any potential previous use of these materials,” she said by email.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In his LinkedIn profile, Dunlap describes himself as the “lead and subject matter expert” on water and chemicals issues for Koch’s entire suite of companies during his eight years there. Even if he did not directly manage the company's work on PFAS, it would be “hard to believe that he had not touched any decisions on PFAS with that broad of a scope of responsibilities," said Erik Olson, who leads the Natural Resources Defense Council’s public health work.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Olson said Dunlap’s oversight of EPA’s research on the chemicals raises red flags. “You want an independent, hardheaded scientific review of these issues; you don’t want somebody who is already taking the industry party line,” he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to federal disclosures, Koch Industries spent at least $90,000 in 2018 lobbying on issues related to chemicals. The American Chemistry Council, the chemicals industry’s largest lobbying group, which</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Georgia-Pacific has worked through in the past to influence policy on toxic chemicals, spent $9 million last year lobbying lawmakers, EPA and other agencies, including on PFAS issues.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Food and Drug Administration governs the use of chemicals in food wrappers,</b> and has approved 21 PFAS blends for such use, according to Tom Neltner, the chemicals policy director for the Environmental Defense Fund who has conducted research on paper mills’ use of the compounds. But he said the greater liability that paper companies like Georgia-Pacific may face comes from manufacturing waste that contains the chemicals, such as leftover paper trimmings.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That waste can end up in landfills or compost that is used to grow fruits and vegetables, Neltner said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"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," he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Moreover, Georgia-Pacific may well have cleanup responsibility for other sites like the one in Michigan</b>. During the time it operated the manufacturing plant, from 2000 to 2015, Georgia-Pacific closed a landfill that had also been used by other companies, including at least one that the company says it believes used a 3M-patented PFAS. The class-action lawsuit filed by citizens alleges that Georgia-Pacific did not properly close the landfill to prevent the chemicals from leaching into nearby water. Georgia-Pacific is currently working with the state of Michigan to trace the chemicals' movement through groundwater.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Under the Superfund law, a company can be held liable for cleanup even if it wasn’t primarily responsible for the contamination.</b></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>Trump administration appointees interfered with development of a toxicity assessment for a "forever chemical" and made changes that were "not scientifically sound," documents obtained by E&E News through the Freedom of Information Act show</b>. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); EPA (document); unclelkt/Pixabay (hand)</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Trump-era EPA appointees engaged in "considerable political level interference" on an assessment for a controversial "forever chemical," documents obtained by E&E News indicate.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">But the Biden administration wasted no time in yanking that document, moving to scrub the assessment of alterations made by political appointees and restore language advocated by EPA career scientists shortly after the president’s inauguration.</span></div><div>
</div><div>At issue is a toxicity assessment for PFBS, part of the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances family. PFBS is a replacement chemical for PFOS — one of the two most well-studied and controversial PFAS, due to health risks like cancer. The replacement compound, a surfactant, is used in manufacturing processes and to make stain-resistant coatings for various consumer items like clothes, among other purposes.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shed light on the agency back-and-forth over the toxicity assessment for PFBS, released in the last days of the Trump administration, only to be clawed back as soon as Biden took office</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Staff conversations show the process of withdrawing and replacing the document came after a contentious publication process that saw significant input from political appointees, in a breach with agency processes.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>In an email sent Jan. 21, shortly after Biden’s inauguration, then-head of EPA’s Office of Research and Development Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta conveyed wishes that the PFBS assessment be removed.</b></div><div>
</div><div>"During the rush of the last administration to complete various tasks, there was a PFAS assessment on PFBS along with an internal deliberative memo from [the EPA chemicals office] that apparently were posted Tuesday," she wrote to Jane Nishida, then-acting EPA administrator, in an email marked with a "high" importance level.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>In January, anonymous EPA staffers raised concerns that the assessment had been politically compromised (Greenwire, Jan. 14).</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Biden took office, leadership in the research office and the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention immediately requested that the assessment and related documents be taken down at once, Orme-Zavaleta said. "The materials posted are not supported by ORD or OCSPP career scientists and violate the Agency’s scientific integrity policy. We will work to correct the document, brief new leadership then follow up with [the Office of Public Affairs] on the correct release."</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>At the heart of the controversy was a significant shift from a draft assessment, which offered a reference dose — or an indicator of how much individuals can be exposed to a chemical before experiencing adverse health impacts.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A key component of deriving that reference dose are uncertainty factors, which are applied to reflect data limitations. For the PFBS assessment, uncertainty factors were crucial, given a lack of information around areas like immunotoxicity and mammary gland development. But the new document refuted any database deficiency and shifted the reference dose to a range</span>.</div><div>
</div><div>While the assessment was a science, rather than regulatory, document, critics worried the change would allow for industry and government to cherry pick numbers when setting threshold levels. An EPA spokesperson confirmed to E&E News that the Biden administration "immediately began working with EPA’s career scientists and staff" to withdraw and replace the document.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Orme-Zavaleta, who recently retired, meanwhile said the document published under Trump reflected "considerable political level interference" and became "a poster child for why it’s critical to have scientific integrity policies in federal governmen</b>t."</div><div>
</div><div>Pushback on a Trump EPA priority</div><div>
</div><div><b>The PFBS assessment was a priority for the Trump administration, and former <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science Policy David Dunlap[</span>kochsucker] highlighted the issue as a major focus.</b></div><div>
</div><div>EPA originally planned to publish the assessment in late October 2020. But the schedule was delayed amid last-minute comments and concerns about the uncertainty factors from the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A December document reviewed by E&E News showed that Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Deputy <b>Assistant Administrator David Fischer — a former official with the American Chemistry Council, which represents PFAS manufacturers and has lobbied extensively against a crackdown </b>on the chemicals</span> — asked senior toxicologists to review the Office of Research and Development’s PFBS work. Fischer’s office countered ORD’s findings regarding uncertainty factors for chronic and subchronic reference doses.</div><div>
</div><div>Fischer did not respond to a request for comment. But EPA confirmed to E&E News that the process became bogged down by his office’s previous political leadership, in a deviation from regular practices.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In early January, leading up to posting the assessment, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics Deputy Director Tala Henry shared a draft with officials, noting it included proposed in-line edits supporting a range of uncertainty factors. </b>She commented that former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler had requested the inclusion of those edits. Conversations indicate officials sought to publish the assessment in advance of a Wheeler PFAS-centric interview.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Orme-Zavaleta confirmed to E&E News that political leadership decided to modify ORD’s peer-reviewed assessment in keeping with Wheeler’s preferences and that she did not learn of the changes until January. She called the back-and-forth "one of the more infuriating experiences I have ever encountered."</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Her emails show that she pushed back, arguing Wheeler "did not have complete information" in making his request. The PFBS assessment had previously been considered final.</span></div><div>
</div><div>"The type of changes OCSPP proposes would require us to go through the whole process of intra/inter-agency review [and workgroup efforts] … which will take anywhere from 6-8 months," she said.</div><div>
</div><div><b>But a day later, Wheeler’s senior adviser, Taylor Hoverman, announced the process would move forward. The agency’s political leadership negotiated a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> fast-tracked review through the Office of Management and Budget that is not typically part of EPA’s processes for toxicity assessments.</span> Soon afterward, EPA published the document.</b></div><div>
</div><div>‘Very unusual’ levels of input</div><div>
</div><div><b>Multiple political appointees kept a close eye on the PFBS assessment process. In one instance, the Department of Defense gave EPA feedback disputing the agency’s approach to uncertainty factors.</b> Former career staff said those comments came as part of an interagency review process and in response to language inserted by Fischer. Emails show Dunlap wound up editing EPA’s response to the Department of Defense, taking an active role in shaping the final product. He continued asking for updates on the status of the assessment as it proceeded.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Orme-Zavaleta said the level of involvement was irregular. "David Dunlap was engaging in the decision making process for PFBS without consulting with or including anyone else from ORD," she said. "I am also not aware of any other [EPA administrator] weighing in on a science decision in an assessment before.</b>"</div><div>
</div><div><b>Betsy Southerland, a former longtime EPA top scientist, said Dunlap’s level of involvement was "very unusual." She said an official at Dunlap’s level would not typically have edited a technical document as he did.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">"[Deputy assistant administrators] certainly keep track of the progress on high-priority projects and ensure work is done on schedule and following all peer-reviewed guidance and standard processes, but rarely if ever rewrite documents since they are generally not subject matter experts," Southerland said.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Kyla Bennett, who directs science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, meanwhile expressed alarm</b>. The conversations, she said, "prove what we always suspected — Trump Administration political appointees improperly manipulated science at EPA," adding the revelations were "disturbing."</div><div>
</div><div><b>Dunlap did not respond to a request for comment.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Career staff, meanwhile, were unhappy with the changes imposed by political officials. EPA senior science adviser Louis D’Amico voiced harsh criticism in an email sent on Jan. 6.</div><div>
</div><div>"This is precedent setting, and flies completely in the face of legitimate and necessary separation between risk assessment and risk management," he told Orme-Zavaleta and Samantha Jones, the acting associate director for health at EPA’s National Center for Environmental Assessment.</div><div>
</div><div>"A decision to release a ‘range of values’ in EPA assessments should be discussed across the agency, including program offices and regions."</div><div>
</div><div>Jones agreed in a response email, also taking issue with changes stating that the individual value generated for PFBS would be dependent on "the needs of the program office and in the type of risk assessment being performed," including for the general population.</div><div>
</div><div>That note, Jones said, "should NOT be in a scientific foundational document. It would go into the risk assessment by the program."</div><div>
</div><div>A speedy reversal</div><div>
</div><div>Only a day after Biden took office, EPA staff began the process of taking down the PFBS assessment.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In a Feb. 9 email, EPA science communications specialist Kacey Fitzpatrick linked the issue more clearly to former Administrator Wheeler, saying the changes made to the PFBS assessment were at "political direction" and "not scientifically sound."</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">"Administrator Wheeler determined that uncertainty factors were policy, not scientific judgements. … This is contrary to long-standing risk assessment practices based on National Academy of Sciences (NAS) guidance," Fitzpatrick wrote to Carolyn Hubbard, ORD’s science communications director, in an email laying out the agency’s response. "This constitutes a violation of the agency’s Scientific Integrity Policy and the documents have been removed from the EPA website while the agency completes its review."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The old document was pulled that same day</span> (E&E News PM, Feb. 9).</div><div>
</div><div><b>Two months later, EPA released its replacement — one Orme-Zavaleta said in a statement "fixes errors in the version issued earlier this year, was developed by EPA career scientists, and upholds the values of scientific integrity" </b>(Greenwire, April 8).</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The new assessment set a chronic reference dose of 300 parts per trillion per day, along with a subchronic dose of 1,000 ppt per day. That reference dose is much stricter than the 2018 Trump EPA’s original chronic dose recommendation of 10,000 ppt per day with a subchronic range from 40,000 ppt to 100,000 ppt.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>That replacement didn’t mark the end of the saga. EPA’s Office of Inspector General said in June that it would probe the agency’s decisionmaking regarding the assessment (Greenwire, June 16). At the time, EPA said it was "committed to upholding scientific integrity" and would support and assist the review.</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>For her part, Orme-Zavaleta said the PFBS assessment published under Biden "could have been a good news story" if released under Trump, offering the administration a significant action at a time of mounting focus on PFAS. Instead, the release of the compromised assessment eroded faith in an agency that prides itself on science-based decisions.</b></div><div>
</div><div>"Scientific integrity, coupled with sound external peer review and quality assurance procedures are critical for ensuring public trust," she said. "When these measures break down or are manipulated, it erodes public trust and jeopardizes our ability to protect public health and the environment, which first and foremost is EPA’s mission."</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">kid killer:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/08/19/formaldehyde-leukemia-epa-trump-suppressed/">https://theintercept.com/2021/08/19/formaldehyde-leukemia-epa-trump-suppressed/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the suppressed assessment, produced by a division of the Environmental Protection Agency known as the Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, has grave implications for public health, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Trump administration officials, including former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, refused to allow the agency to release the assessment, several sources told The Intercept.</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Formaldehyde, mainly used to make plywood, particleboard, and glues, is also a hazard for millions of workers who are exposed to the chemical through the production of resins, wood composite and furniture production, plastics manufacturing, paper production, embalming, foundry work, fiberglass production, building construction, agriculture, firefighting, and the teaching of biology, among other occupations. The general public is exposed to formaldehyde through tobacco smoke, cosmetics, food and water, as well as “off-gassing” from consumer goods, construction materials, and furniture. In 2019, 662 facilities reported releasing 47.7 million pounds of formaldehyde.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to looking at the chemical’s relationships to nasopharyngeal cancer and leukemia, the draft assessment also factored in evidence that formaldehyde causes decreased lung function, allergic conditions, reproductive and developmental toxicity, and sensory irritation.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In part because formaldehyde is so pervasive, a wide range of business interests have attempted to prevent the EPA from finalizing the assessment and publicly acknowledging the connection to leukemia. Until now, the EPA has kept the contents of its assessment under tight wraps. The leaked information provides a window into how the science and regulation around the chemical will finally be updated</span>.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Just knowing that the IRIS assessment acknowledges that formaldehyde causes myeloid leukemia is huge, regardless of what the value is,” Jennifer McPartland, a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, said after being told about the main findings of the draft assessment. “But the numbers tell you even more. They set the tone for how the agency will proceed with risk management.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the EPA has claimed in court that the formaldehyde assessment did not exist in a form that allowed it to be shared — and used that argument to refuse to release it in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the environmental whistleblower group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, o<b>r PEER — former EPA officials told The Intercept that the completed assessment not only existed but that it had also been prepared for release in early 2018.</b></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We had the document ready to go for review within the agency, but we were not allowed to proceed,” said Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, former director of the EPA Office of Research and Development, who retired from the agency in July.<b> “Political leadership did not want me to move it forward.”</b></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Wheeler, the former EPA administrator, was among the Trump appointees who were involved in suppressing the calculation of the myeloid leukemia risk, according to one former agency official who worked on the assessment.</span> “The administrator would not allow us to put out that number,” the former official said, going on to explain how members of the administrator’s office, particularly his chief of staff Ryan Jackson, kept an unusually close eye on the formaldehyde assessment.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Normally when we’re doing an assessment, they [the staff of the administrator’s office] don’t have access to the guts of it, because it’s deliberative. But they would demand that we give them pieces of the assessment, including what literature we were looking at for dose responses,” the former official said, referring to the precise relationship between exposure and cancer risk. <b>“Then they would share it with ACC,” an acronym for the American Chemistry Counci</b>l. Although the former official provided no direct evidence of the administrator’s office sending out the segments of the assessment, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">they said the actions of the trade group made it clear that it had reviewed the unpublished material.</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“All of a sudden, after we gave the information to Ryan Jackson, there would be all this targeted activity by ACC that would basically dismiss or disprove whatever mathematical methodology that we were going to be using even though it hadn’t been published yet,” said the former official. If the EPA did share the information with the trade group, the report would be subject to release under FOIA and would not be exempt under the “deliberative process privilege,” contrary to the agency’s claim in the PEER lawsuit.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WASHINGTON, DC - A<b>PRIL 26:  Environmental Protection Agency Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson (R) listens to Administrator Scott Pruitt</b> testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Environment Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 26, 2018 in Washington, DC. The focus of nearly a dozen federal inquiries into his travel expenses, security practices and other issues, Pruitt testified about his agency's FY2019 budget proposal.  (]</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Orme-Zavaleta confirmed that Jackson, who now works for the National Mining Association, played a key role in preventing the assessment from moving forward. “The ACC was in contact with Ryan a lot,” she said.</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Asked about his role in the formaldehyde assessment, Jackson stated, “Following enactment of the Lautenberg Act, EPA placed formaldehyde though the risk evaluation required in that new law so formaldehyde could be directly regulated by EPA</b>,” referring to the Trump administration’s decision to add formaldehyde to the list of chemicals to be evaluated under the Toxic Substances Control Act. That assessment has also yet to be completed or released. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Jackson also stated that “I’m not contributing to anonymous rumors.”</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew Wheeler declined to comment. In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for the ACC wrote that the group “has never had access in any manner to unpublished findings from the formaldehyde draft IRIS assessment.”</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Orme-Zavaleta also pointed to other Trump appointees who she said were apparently involved in suppression of the document. Among them was the<b> director of the Office of Air and Radiation, Bill Wehrum</b>, whose input Orme-Zavaleta needed to move the assessment forward. “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">A couple times we set up briefings for Bill Wehrum. But they canceled those briefings, and I was not given the OK to further the review within the agency.”</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dunlap Koch email to EPA</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 page</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">David Dunlap, who served as deputy assistant administrator in the EPA’s Office of Research and Development, also helped suppress the assessment, said Orme-Zavaleta. “When we were in the process of coming up with the priority list for IRIS assessments, a lot of those discussions were held during ‘politicals-only’ meetings, so I wasn’t there. But [Dunlap] was, he was our representative. Formaldehyde was on the list of chemicals being considered. And in November, I got back a short list of the chemicals IRIS would assess, and formaldehyde was not part of it,” she said. </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Dunlap worked for Koch Industries </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">and defended formaldehyde until shortly before he joined the Trump administration in 2018. </span></b><b>Dunlap did eventually recuse himself from work on the assessment, though only after formaldehyde was removed from the list of chemicals IRIS would be allowed to assess</b>, according to Orme-Zavaleta. “I only received a copy of his recusal letter after I got the list of chemicals.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Dunlap declined to comment on the matter.</font></b></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“EPA lied to us. And they lied to the court.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Presented with information from Orme-Zavaleta and others about the completion of the assessment in 2017,<b> PEER attorney Kevin Bell</b> expressed anger and frustration. Bell oversees 3-year-old litigation against the EPA over the group’s Freedom of Information Act request for the assessment. In that case, the agency has insisted that it didn’t have a completed version of the document that it could publicly release.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“EPA lied to us. And they lied to the court,” said Bell. “They said, ‘We just can’t give you anything like this, because it would be totally full of all sorts of irrelevant things, so that it would totally undermine the deliberative process,’ whereas in reality they had a fully drafted document that was all set to go.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA declined to comment on Bell’s statement but did provide a broader response, saying that “EPA is committed to ensuring that science is at the backbone of everything the Agency does to deliver on our public health and environmental protection mission, and that we operate in a transparent manner to ensure public trust.” Bill Wehrum did not respond to requests for comment.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Decades of Industry Influence</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The suppression of the most recent draft assessment follows many years of interference with government science on formaldehyde. IRIS began updating its original assessment of the chemical in 1997 but almost immediately ran into resistance from industry, particularly <b>around the link to leukemia. A group called the Formaldehyde Council,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"> Inc.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">,</span> which represented companies that used the chemical, began challenging the numbers in the assessment and came up with a cancer risk that was thousands of times lower than the EPA’s. <b>Political appointees in the George W. Bush administration also helped industry postpone the release of the updated document.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> A 2008 Government Accountability Office report documented those delays and lamented the public health implications of having to rely on an IRIS assessment that was then 18 years old.</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Yet that first assessment, completed three decades ago, is still guiding regulation.</span> I<b>n the intervening years, both the International Agency on Cancer Research, or IARC, and National Toxicology Program, whose chemical reviews don’t have the regulatory weight of IRIS assessments, classified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen and recognized it as a cause of leukemia.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In 2010, the EPA released a draft of the updated assessment, which also found that formaldehyde caused leukemia, but did not finalize it. </span>The <b>ACC was harshly critical of that draft,</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">and the agency sent the report to the National Academy of Sciences for peer review. The external agency confirmed its finding that formaldehyde causes cancer and encouraged the agency to quickly rewrite and reissue its report. But the EPA didn’t complete that work until 2016.</span></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vincent Cogliano, who directed the IRIS program from 2010 to 2017, said the delays during those years weren’t due to political or industry pressure. “We were really trying to get a very objective assessment released,” said Cogliano, who attributed the slow progress on the assessment in that period to the heavy workload of the small program. While Cogliano characterized some of the science around formaldehyde as complex, he said that no one on the IRIS staff disagreed about the relationship between myeloid leukemia and formaldehyde. “When I left the IRIS program in January 2017, I thought that it was ready to be released,” he said.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And yet more than four years later, the EPA has yet to release the updated IRIS assessment.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s very frustrating,” said Linda Birnbaum, who directed the National Toxicology Program from 2009 to 2019. “Here there is evidence that IARC said that formaldehyde was a known human carcinogen. And we said it was a known human carcinogen and that the data was clear. And more data has come out since then, especially from the National Cancer Institute, yet no word from EPA.”</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Formaldehyde was added back on to the list of chemicals being assessed on the IRIS public calendar in March. According to an EPA spokesperson, the IRIS Program anticipates releasing the draft assessment of formaldehyde for public comment and external peer review by September 30, 2022. The agency is widely expected to ask the National Academy of Sciences to weigh in on how and whether the agency should combine the cancer risk estimates for myeloid leukemia and nasopharyngeal cancer.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Orme-Zavaleta said that no one in the Biden EPA expressed hesitation about resuming work on it when she raised the issue in the first weeks of President Joe Biden’s tenure. “I asked them several times. I said, ‘I’m going to unsuspend formaldehyde, are you good with that?’ And every time, everybody said, ‘Fine, do it,’” she said. “It is moving!”</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the assurances, those intimately familiar with the history of formaldehyde remain guarded in their optimism that the EPA is finally about to update the assessment of one of the most significant and widespread carcinogens in the U.S.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The draft assessment EPA released for public comment in November 2018 took the standard approach of providing a single number describing how toxic the chemical is to humans. | Getty Images</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By ANNIE SNIDER</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>01/13/2021</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Political officials at EPA have overruled the agency’s career scientists to weaken a major health assessment for a toxic chemical contaminating the drinking water of an estimated 860,000 Americans, according to four sources with knowledge of the changes.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The changes to the safety assessment for the chemical PFBS, part of a class of "forever chemicals" called PFAS, is the latest example of the Trump administration's tailoring of science to align with its political agenda, and another in a series of eleventh-hour steps the administration has taken to hamstring President-elect Joe Biden's ability to support aggressive environmental regulations.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“They’re just trying to lay as many landmines as possible,” said a Democratic congressional aide with knowledge of the changes. “Every single thing that they’re doing ends up being a landmine for whoever comes next. It’s going to take a lot of time to unravel, which sort of takes away from the ability to do anything proactive.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An EPA spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment on the changes, but defended its effort to tap scientists from a different part of the agency to rewrite the rule.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">PFBS is a replacement for a related chemical, PFOS, that was used for decades in Scotchguard and military firefighting foam before being phased out in the mid-2000s. PFBS has been in military firefighting foam, carpeting and food packaging,<b> but independent scientists say it may not be much safer than the toxin it replaced.</b> It has been linked with with thyroid, kidney and reproductive problems at very low levels of exposure.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>While the new assessment is a science document, not a regulatory one, the changes in question open the door for state and federal regulators to potentially set less stringent cleanup standards, drinking water limits and other standards.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The broader class of PFAS, of which PFOS is a part, has been used in everything from stain-resistant carpeting to Teflon to microwave popcorn bags, and are linked with kidney and testicular cancer, immune effects and other health ailments. The chemicals contaminate the drinking water supplies of an estimated 200 million Americans, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Trump administration officials at EPA have vowed to aggressively address PFAS, touting a multi-pronged <b>PFAS Action Plan. But they have fought efforts by lawmakers to accelerate work on a federal drinking water limit for the chemicals, </b>and in 2018 POLITICO reported that <b>White House officials sought to block a CDC assessment finding they are dangerous at much lower levels of exposure than EPA said was safe, calling it “a public relations nightmare.”</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The PFBS assessment has been in the works for more than three years, and has been a particular concern for the Defense Department, which faces massive cleanup liability.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The draft assessment EPA released for public comment in November 2018 took the standard approach of providing a single number describing how toxic the chemical is to humans, called a “reference dose.” Regulators can then use that number to calculate a safety limit for different populations — for instance, for pregnant women or people with compromised immune systems.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the final assessment sent to the White House for review Monday replaces that single reference dose value with a range of values, the sources said, a <b>change made by staffers in the agency's pesticides office at the direction of political officials </b>— not the career scientists at EPA who specialize in assessing the human health risks of chemicals.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EPA spokeswoman Molly Bock defended this reassignment, saying that it is "routine" to consult with other parts of the agency.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"This collaboration is important as other program offices have information and expertise that can improve the scientific quality of the work product under review. This aligns with EPA’s PFAS Action Plan, which is the first multi-media, multi-program office plan to address an emerging contaminant of concern," she said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>But the alterations were so alarming that several of the career EPA scientists who spent years working on the study have asked that their names be removed from the document, two of the sources said.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Environmental advocates say the range approach would allow industry and state and local officials to “cherry-pick” the number they like best, regardless of whether it is sufficiently protective.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“The dream of industry has always been a range of values so that you really can choose anywhere within that range,” said Betsy Southerland, a former top EPA scientist who led the agency’s work on the health assessment for two other PFAS chemicals in 2016.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The new range of reference doses in the final assessment includes slightly weaker values than EPA forward put forward in its draft assessment in November 2018, two of the sources said. But the most alarming part isn't the numbers themselves, they said, since the conclusion is still that PFBS is dangerous at very low levels of exposure. <b>Rather, it's the fact that political officials upended the scientific process to arrive at them.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It’s not orders of magnitudes, but that’s irrelevant. How much does it matter if you get one drop or two drops of cyanide?” said the source, a senior EPA scientist.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In a related move late last week, the Trump administration threw up a new roadblock to environmental health assessments with a new mandate from the powerful <b>Office of Management and Budget,</b> which resides at the White House.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>On Friday, OMB ordered that the agency's gold-standard health assessments go through White House review -- a process that environmental and public health advocates say inserts political interference into documents that are meant to be purely scientific and have already been peer reviewed.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The order, sent from OMB to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in a memo reviewed by POLITICO, effectively reinstates a process that was in place under the George W. Bush administration, which a government watchdog found “limits the credibility” of assessments from EPA’s premiere risk assessment program, the Integrated Risk Information System. The I</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">RIS program has for years been a top target for the chemicals industry, Republicans on Capitol Hill and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Trump's EPA research chief, David Dunlap, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">in his former role as a chemicals expert at Koch Industries.</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The PFBS assessment is the first to go through the newly-mandated White House review, and the sources said they expect it to be perfunctory, aimed primarily at establishing a precedent. The assessment could be finalized as soon as Wednesday, they said.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“There’s no need for there to be a political review of these documents,” said Genna Reed with the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Largely it is an opportunity for political officials to interfere with the information, to weaken the science, and to play up uncertainty.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>OMB spokesman Edie Heipel defended the move,</b> saying there is “nothing controversial about ensuring good science unless you are worried that your work won’t stand up to scrutiny from other scientists across the government.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>[SECRET SCI BS] These latest moves come after EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler last week finalized a sweeping regulation limiting the agency’s ability to rely on scientific studies that don’t make all of their underlying data public – a requirement that public health advocates say will make it harder for the agency to use research on the health effects of toxic chemicals on humans.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>To be sure, the incoming Biden administration is expected to attempt to reverse many of these moves. Environmental groups [EG EDF] have already filed suit seeking to overturn last week’s scientific transparency rule. But critics of the move say it will take some time to unwind, leaving health and safety gaps in the meantime.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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Lawmakers <span style="font-weight: bold;">have scrutinized EPA</span> following reports that the agency ... study despite his prior <span style="font-weight: bold;">role</span> as a chemicals expert for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Koch Industries</span>. .... News Communications, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Inc</span>.</font></span></a></font></font></font></font></font><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><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"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:USTaFBH08LYJ:https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/469378-epa-offers-non-responsive-documents-to-science-committee-following+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:USTaFBH08LYJ:https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/469378-epa-offers-non-responsive-documents-to-science-committee-following%2B%26cd%3D4%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwifl9j1wbDmAhUBSa0KHS28C6QQIDADegQIARAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing: <s>investigators</s> ‎<s>tomorrow</s> ‎<s>executive</s> ‎<s>sidelining</s></font></a></font></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwifl9j1wbDmAhUBSa0KHS28C6QQFSgAMAR6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/epas-top-leaders-stymied-research-unit-report-finds-11550149201" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/epas-top-leaders-stymied-research-unit-report-finds-11550149201&ved=2ahUKEwifl9j1wbDmAhUBSa0KHS28C6QQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" /></a></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><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"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/epas-top-leaders-stymied-research-unit-report-finds-11550149201" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/epas-top-leaders-stymied-research-unit-report-finds-11550149201&ved=2ahUKEwifl9j1wbDmAhUBSa0KHS28C6QQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="S3Uucc">EPA's Top Leaders Stymied Research Unit, Report Finds - WSJ</span></font></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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</font></footer><footer class="meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; margin-top: 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Trump administration has placed a former Koch Industries official<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>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></footer></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Dunlap, a deputy in EPA’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.</font></p><div class="story-interrupt format-s pos-alpha predetermined fixed-story-third-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; width: 313.5px; float: left; margin-right: 31.3438px;"><div class="interrupt-item ad" aria-label="Advertisement" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative !important; z-index: 2 !important;"><div class="ad-slot js-lazy-load flex vertical " id="pol-05" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; min-height: 250px; width: 300px; height: 250px; margin: 0px auto; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 242); position: relative;"><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump has not nominated anyone to run the office. That effectively allows Dunlap to avoid the Senate confirmation process while overseeing a central part of EPA's work that could impose cleanup costs on companies that have used the chemicals, including major Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific. The paper and pulp conglomerate is already facing at least one class-action lawsuit related to the chemicals.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Previously undisclosed documents obtained by POLITICO show Dunlap began working on the issue almost immediately upon arriving at EPA in October. He had 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.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic lawmakers and environmentalist say the prevalence of administration officials who came from the chemicals industry contributes to its hands-off approach to the chemicals, which<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>are appearing in drinking water supplies across the country to rising public alarm. Known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the chemicals have been linked with kidney and testicular cancer, as well as other ailments.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both Republicans and Democrats have urged a stronger approach from acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler — who faces a confirmation vote in the Senate Environment Committee Tuesday — but he has stopped short of using all the tools in the agency's arsenal.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just last week, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/28/epa-toxic-chemicals-drinking-water-1124797" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a> the agency has decided against<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>setting drinking water limits for the two most well-understood chemicals in the class in a forthcoming plan for the chemicals, and the new documents show Dunlap was involved in high-level meetings preceding that decision.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said Dunlap’s hiring adds to his concerns about the Trump administration's handling of the issue.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Coming on the heels of Mr. Wheeler’s failure to commit to setting a drinking water standard for PFAS, this potential conflict of interest within the agency paints a bleak picture about EPA’s priorities on chemical safety with respect to these particular substances. I look forward to learning more about Mr. Dunlap’s role in the development of EPA’s PFAS management plan,” Carper said in a statement.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dunlap’s ethics agreement bars him from “participating in any particular matter involving specific parties” related to Koch Industries, but the agency’s ethics officials have typically taken a narrow interpretation of such prohibitions. And while Dunlap voluntarily recused himself from work on formaldehyde, which Georgia-Pacific produces, the agreement includes no mention of PFAS.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koch Industries spokesperson David Dziok said that Dunlap worked on a broad set of issues related to water and chemicals during his time with the company, but that "PFAs were not part of the portfolio he managed."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dunlap did not respond to a request for comment. EPA did not answer specific questions about Dunlap’s involvement in the agency’s work and his potential conflict of interest.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dunlap's calendars, obtained by POLITICO under the Freedom of Information Act, show he participated in at least nine PFAS meetings in his first six weeks on<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>the job, including an Oct. 22 briefing with Wheeler, chief of staff Ryan Jackson and other top political officials. At the time, agency leaders were writing a wide-ranging chemical management plan in which they decided not to set a drinking water standard for the two specific chemicals — PFOA and PFOS. That plan has been under review at the White House since December.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While those two older chemicals are no longer used in the U.S., EPA <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-08/documents/r4_combined_presentations.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">estimates</a> that there are between 5,000 and 10,000 similar chemical<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>compounds, used in everything from nonstick cookware to water resistant jackets to microwave popcorn bags. Industry has argued that the newer compounds are less dangerous to human health, but scientists say there is reason to worry that the entire class of PFAS compounds poses a risk. Public health advocates are pushing EPA to regulate the chemicals as a class, arguing that evaluating each one individually will take decades, if it happens at all.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The calendars also show Dunlap helping to shape EPA's approach to these newer compounds<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>that are still in use.<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>He participated in an Oct. 31 call with career staff in his division on two chemicals, GenX and PFBS, for which they were preparing health assessments.<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>Research has shown those new chemicals can also be dangerous, and that those dangers may be greater when people are exposed to them in combination with other chemicals, as they often occur in drinking water. Environmental groups have said the chemicals should be evaluated together to account for those risks, but EPA took the opposite approach when it released the GenX and PFBS health assessments two weeks later.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then on Nov. 5, Dunlap was scheduled to join a<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>call with staff scientific leads to discuss the next slate of chemicals for which they would prepare health assessments. Dunlap's former employer has a stake in which chemicals EPA focuses on: A company spokesperson said Georgia-Pacific may still be using PFAS in its products, as it has in the past, but she would not say which specific chemicals it uses. There are very few legal requirements for companies to tell the public or regulators which chemicals they use in their processes and at which factories.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to questions about Dunlap's role, an EPA spokesperson said, "Addressing PFAS is an Agency-wide effort with David Ross, the EPA’s Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water, serving as the EPA staff lead on addressing PFAS."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, the research overseen by Dunlap lays the groundwork for any regulatory decisions Ross is coordinating. EPA officials have underscored the importance of research to their PFAS work in a number of public presentations, including briefings to the agency's <a href="https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/708FDD305E55DC7E8525829C005F9EB4/$File/PFAS+Presentation+SAB.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Science Advisory Board</a> and at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-08/documents/r4_combined_presentations.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">meetings</a> in affected communities.</font></p><aside class="story-related" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 344.859px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); padding: 0.625em 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article class="story-frag format-sm" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; width: 658px; table-layout: fixed;"><figure class="thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 5.625em;"><div class="fig-graphic" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></figure><div class="summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.2; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 0.625em;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><p class="category" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/energy-and-environment" target="blank" data-tracking="mpos=inside body&mid=ParentheticalModule&lindex=Unknown&lcol=Unknown" class="js-tealium-tracking" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT</font></a></p><h3 style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/28/epa-toxic-chemicals-drinking-water-1124797" target="top" data-tracking="mpos=inside body&mid=ParentheticalModule&lindex=Unknown&lcol=Unknown" class="js-tealium-tracking" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Exclusive: Trump EPA won't limit 2 toxic chemicals in drinking water</font></a></h3></header><footer class="meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1;"><div itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By <a href="https://www.politico.com/staff/annie-snider" rel="author" class="url fn" target="top" data-tracking="mpos=inside body&mid=ParentheticalModule&lindex=Unknown&lcol=Unknown" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700;">ANNIE SNIDER</a></font></p></div></footer></div></article></aside><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Georgia-Pacific, which manufactures products like Brawny paper towels and Dixie cups, has not only used PFAS in some of its <a href="https://www.gppro.com/products/food-packaging" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">food packaging products</a>, but has also owned facilities where the chemicals were disposed, creating a cleanup liability that could prove costly.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company is already facing a class-action lawsuit from citizens in the town of Parchment, Mich., where last summer state officials <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2018/07/pfas_parchment_test_results_we.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">discovered</a> the chemicals in drinking water at concentrations as much as 26 times higher than EPA’s recommended limit. That contamination was traced to a paper mill that Georgia-Pacific previously had a stake in.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Georgia-Pacific spokesperson Karen Cole said the company believes<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>that “only a very small percentage of our food wrap and related products — if any” contain the chemicals today, and noted that PFOA and PFOS were phased out of use in food wrappers "several years ago." She said Georgia-Pacific does not apply the PFAS itself, but gets paper from a supplier that in some cases has previously treated it with PFAS.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We are currently evaluating past manufacturing practices to better understand any potential previous use of these materials,” she said by email.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunlap-david-78981834/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">profile</a>, Dunlap describes himself as the “lead and subject matter expert” on water and chemicals issues for Koch’s entire suite of companies during his eight years there. Even if he did not directly manage the company's work on PFAS, it would be “hard to believe that he had not touched any decisions on PFAS with that broad of a scope of responsibilities," said Erik Olson, who leads the Natural Resources Defense Council’s public health work.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Olson said Dunlap’s oversight of EPA’s research on the chemicals raises red flags. “You want an independent, hardheaded scientific review of these issues; you don’t want somebody who is already taking the industry party line,”<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>he said.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to federal disclosures, Koch Industries spent at least $90,000 in 2018 lobbying on issues related to chemicals. The American Chemistry Council, the chemicals industry’s largest lobbying group, which Georgia-Pacific has worked through <a href="https://www.americanchemistry.com/Media/PressReleasesTranscripts/ACC-news-releases/ACC-Forms-New-Formaldehyde-Panel.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">in the past</a> to influence policy on toxic chemicals, spent $9 million last year lobbying lawmakers, EPA and other agencies, including on PFAS issues.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Food and Drug Administration governs the use of chemicals in food wrappers, and has approved 21 PFAS blends for such use, according to Tom Neltner, the chemicals policy director for the Environmental Defense Fund who has conducted <a href="http://blogs.edf.org/health/2018/05/21/pfas-paper-mills/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">research</a> on paper mills’ use of the compounds. But he said<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>the greater liability that paper companies like Georgia-Pacific may face comes from manufacturing waste that contains the chemicals, such as leftover paper trimmings.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That waste can end up in landfills or compost that is used to grow fruits and vegetables, Neltner said.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"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," he said.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moreover, Georgia-Pacific may well have cleanup responsibility for other sites like the one in Michigan. During the time it operated the manufacturing plant, from 2000 to 2015, Georgia-Pacific closed a landfill that had also been used by other companies, including at least one that the company says it believes used a 3M-patented PFAS. The class-action lawsuit filed by citizens alleges that Georgia-Pacific did not properly close the landfill to prevent the chemicals from leaching into nearby water. Georgia-Pacific is currently working with the state of Michigan to trace the chemicals' movement through groundwater

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Previously undisclosed documents obtained by POLITICO show David Dunlap began working on the issue almost immediately upon arriving at EPA in October.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By ANNIE SNIDER 02/04/2019 06:11 PM </font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">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><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>David Dunlap, a deputy in EPA’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></font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">President Donald<b> Trump has not nominated anyone to run the office. That effectively allows Dunlap to avoid the Senate confirmation</b> process while overseeing a central part of EPA's work that could impose cleanup costs on companies that have used the chemicals, including major<b> Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific. The paper and pulp conglomerate is already facing at least one class-action</b> lawsuit related to the chemicals.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Previously undisclosed documents obtained by POLITICO show Dunlap began working on the issue almost immediately upon arriving at EPA in October. He had 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.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democratic lawmakers and environmentalist say the prevalence of administration officials who came from the chemicals industry contributes to its hands-off approach to the chemicals, which are appearing in drinking water supplies across the country to rising public alarm. Known as</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the chemicals have been linked with kidney and testicula</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">r cancer, </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as well as other ailments.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Both Republicans and Democrats have urged a stronger approach from acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler — who faces a confirmation vote in the Senate Environment Committee Tuesday — but he has stopped short of using all the tools in the agency's arsenal.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just last week</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, POLITICO reported the agency has decided against setting drinking water limits for the two most well-understood chemicals in the class in a forthcoming plan for the chemicals, and the new documents show Dunlap was involved in high-level meetings preceding that decision.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,</b> said Dunlap’s hiring adds to his concerns about the Trump administration's handling of the issue.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Coming on the heels of Mr. Wheeler’s failure to commit to setting a drinking water standard for PFAS, this potential conflict of interest within the agency paints a bleak picture about EPA’s priorities on chemical safety with respect to these particular substances. I look forward to learning more about Mr. Dunlap’s role in the development of EPA’s PFAS management plan,” Carper said in a statement.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dunlap’s ethics agreement bars him from “participating in any particular matter involving specific parties” related to Koch Industries, but the agency’s ethics officials have typically taken a narrow interpretation of such prohibitions. And while Dunlap voluntarily recused himself from work on formaldehyde, which Georgia-Pacific produces, the agreement includes no mention of PFAS.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Koch Industries spokesperson David Dziok said that Dunlap worked on a broad set of issues related to water and chemicals during his time with the company, but that "PFAs were not part of the portfolio he managed."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);"><b>Dunlap did not respond to a request </b>for comment. EPA did not answer specific questions about Dunlap’s involvement in the agency’s work and his potential conflict of interest.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dunlap's calendars, obtained by POLITICO under the Freedom of Information Act, show he participated in at least nine PFAS meetings in his first six weeks on the job, including an Oct. 22 briefing with Wheeler, chief of staff Ryan Jackson and other top political officials.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> At the time, agency leaders were writing a wide-ranging chemical management plan in which they decided not to set a drinking water standard for the two specific chemicals — PFOA and PFOS. That plan has been under review at the White House since December.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While those two older chemicals are no longer used in the U.S., EPA estimates that there are between 5,000 and 10,000 similar chemical compounds, used in everything from nonstick cookware to water resistant jackets to microwave popcorn bags.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Industry has argued that the newer compounds are less dangerous to human health, but scientists say there is reason to worry that the entire class of PFAS compounds poses a risk. Public health advocates are pushing EPA to regulate the chemicals as a class, arguing that evaluating each one individually will take decades, if it happens at all.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The calendars also show Dunlap helping to shape EPA's approach to these newer compounds that are still in use. He participated in an Oct. 31 call with career staff in his division on<b> two chemicals, GenX and PFBS, for which they were preparing health assessments</b>. Research has shown those new chemicals can also be dangerous, and that those dangers may be greater when people are exposed to them in combination with other chemicals, as they often occur in drinking water. Environmental groups have said the chemicals should be evaluated together to account for those risks, but EPA took the opposite approach when it released the GenX and PFBS health assessments two weeks later.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then on Nov. 5, Dunlap was scheduled to join a call with staff scientific leads to discuss the next slate of chemicals for which they would prepare health assessments. Dunlap's former employer has a stake in which chemicals EPA focuses on:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> A company spokesperson said Georgia-Pacific may still be using PFAS in its products, as it has in the past, but she would not say which specific chemicals it uses. There are very few legal requirements for companies to tell the public or regulators which chemicals they use in their processes and at which factories.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In response to questions about Dunlap's role, an EPA spokesperson said, "Addressing PFAS is an Agency-wide effort with David Ross, the EPA’s Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water, serving as the EPA staff lead on addressing PFAS."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>However, the research overseen by Dunlap lays the groundwork for any regulatory decisions Ross is coordinating</b>. EPA officials have underscored the importance of research to their PFAS work in a number of public presentations, including briefings to the agency's Science Advisory Board and at meetings in affected communities.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Georgia-Pacific, which manufactures products like Brawny paper towels and Dixie cups, has not only used PFAS in some of its food packaging products, but has also owned facilities where the chemicals were disposed, creating a cleanup liability that could prove costly.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The company is already facing a<b> class-action lawsuit </b>from citizens in the town of Parchment,<b> Mich., </b>where last summer state officials discovered the chemicals in drinking water at concentrations as much as 26 times higher than EPA’s recommended limit. That contamination was traced to a paper mill that Georgia-Pacific previously had a stake in.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Georgia-Pacific spokesperson Karen Cole said the company believes that “only a very small percentage of our food wrap and related products — if any” contain the chemicals today, and noted that PFOA and PFOS were phased out of use in food wrappers "several years ago." She said Georgia-Pacific does not apply the PFAS itself, but gets paper from a supplier that in some cases has previously treated it with PFAS.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“We are currently evaluating past manufacturing practices to better understand any potential previous use of these materials,” she said by email.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In his LinkedIn profile, Dunlap describes himself as the “lead and subject matter expert” on water and chemicals issues for Koch’s entire suite of companies during his eight years there. Even if he did not directly manage the company's work on PFAS, it would be “hard to believe that he had not touched any decisions on PFAS with that broad of a scope of responsibilities," said Erik Olson, who leads the Natural Resources Defense Council’s public health work.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Olson said Dunlap’s oversight of EPA’s research on the chemicals raises red flags. “You want an independent, hardheaded scientific review of these issues; you don’t want somebody who is already taking the industry party line,” he said.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to federal disclosures, Koch Industries spent at least $90,000 in 2018 lobbying on issues related to chemicals. The American Chemistry Council, the chemicals industry’s largest lobbying group, which Georgia-Pacific has worked through in the past to influence policy on toxic chemicals, spent $9 million last year lobbying lawmakers, EPA and other agencies, including on PFAS issues.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Food and Drug Administration governs the use of chemicals in food wrappers, and has approved 21 PFAS blends for such use, according to Tom Neltner, the chemicals policy director for the Environmental Defense Fund who has conducted research on paper mills’ use of the compounds. But he said the greater liability that paper companies like Georgia-Pacific may face comes from manufacturing waste that contains the chemicals, such as leftover paper trimmings.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That waste can end up in landfills or compost that is used to grow fruits and vegetables, Neltner said.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"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," he said.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Moreover, Georgia-Pacific may well have cleanup responsibility for other sites like the one in Michigan. During the time it operated the manufacturing plant, from 2000 to 2015, Georgia-Pacific closed a landfill that had also been used by other companies, including at least one that the company says it believes used a <b>3M-patented PFAS</b>. The class-action lawsuit filed by citizens alleges that Georgia-Pacific did not properly close the landfill to prevent the chemicals from leaching into nearby water. Georgia-Pacific is currently working with the state of Michigan to trace the chemicals' movement through groundwater.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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 A former chemical and fossil fuel industry executive who recently oversaw the anti-environmental agenda of the Koch brothers is playing a lead role crafting the Trump administration’s plan to address the crisis of PFAS contamination in the nation’s drinking water supply, according to a report <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-energy/2019/02/04/ex-koch-official-shaping-pfas-moves-501566" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; overflow-wrap: break-word;">today by Politico</a>.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Dunlap, a top political appointee in the Office of Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency, has played a significant role in shaping the agency’s plan for addressing PFAS contamination in the tap water supplies of more than 100 million Americans. According to documents obtained by Politico through a public records request, Dunlap began working on the issue almost immediately after coming to EPA, in October, and has participated in at least nine meetings on PFAS, including one briefing with Andrew Wheeler, the agency’s acting administrator.  </font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dunlap, a chemical engineer, had been the director of environmental affairs at Koch Industries since 2010, before coming into the Trump administration. On his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunlap-david-78981834/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; overflow-wrap: break-word;">LinkedIn profile,</a> Dunlap described his position at Koch Industries as a “subject matter expert” on water, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, chemical management and the Toxic Substances Control Act. Before working for Koch, Dunlap worked at the Chlorine Institute.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last week, Politico Pro’s Annie Snider <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/28/epa-toxic-chemicals-drinking-water-1124797" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; overflow-wrap: break-word;">reported</a> that, according to her sources, Wheeler will not move to regulate any of the PFAS family of fluorinated chemicals by setting a legal limit, known as a maximum contaminant level, under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Studies have linked PFAS chemicals to cancer, kidney disease, weakened childhood immunity and other health problems.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, installs a former Koch executive to clean up toxic chemicals in drinking water, the chances of it happening are about as likely as snowfall in San Diego,” said EWG Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Scott Faber. “We hope both Wheeler and Dunlap will follow EPA’s mission statement instead of the demands of the chemical industry and adopt a health-protective drinking water standard that will reduce PFAS in the drinking water serving millions of people.”</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EWG and researchers at Northeastern University have tracked <a href="https://www.ewg.org/research/update-mapping-expanding-pfas-crisis" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; overflow-wrap: break-word;">172 PFAS contamination sites in 40 states</a>. Drawing on unreleased data from EPA tests, EWG estimates that water supplies for as many as 110 million Americans may be contaminated.

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...Environmental Protection Agency has hired a former Koch Industries staffer who worked on water and chemical policy to fill a key role within the agency, continuing a Trump administration trend of appointing company insiders to oversee the industries they are meant to regulate.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Dunlap, a former Koch chemical engineer who has served as director of policy and regulatory affairs with the right-wing corporation since 2010, is joining the EPA as deputy assistant administrator for research and development. Prior to his eight years with Koch, Dunlap <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunlap-david-78981834/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">worked</a> for the Chlorine Institute overseeing health and environmental safety, in addition to roles with both the Uniform and Textile Service Association and Ogden Environmental.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As a chemical engineer, Mr. Dunlap has worked on environmental issues for nearly 30 years with a focus on assessing risk,” read a statement from EPA chief of staff Ryan Jackson. “His extensive experience on regulatory issues will be pivotal in our mission to protect human health and the environment.”</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc-holdings-investments" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">Koch Industries</a> is a massive conglomerate overseen by the Koch brothers, major conservative donors who have spent decades undercutting U.S. climate and environmental policies — the brothers’ fortune was made largely from fossil fuels but has since expanded to chemicals and manufacturing.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April, Senate Democrats <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-send-letter-to-trump-about-koch-influence-a325904aa03c/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">indicated</a> that they would probe the influence of the brothers on Trump administration policies, specifically with reference to the EPA and the Department of the Interior. The Kochs have appeared to take credit for the rollback of the Clean Power Plan, among other Obama-era initiatives targeted by the Trump administration.</font></font></font></p><div class="related-contentwrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-send-letter-to-trump-about-koch-influence-a325904aa03c/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;" /></font></font><div class="related-contentimage" style="box-sizing: inherit; align-self: flex-start; margin: 0px 1rem 0px 0px; width: 171px;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-send-letter-to-trump-about-koch-influence-a325904aa03c/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-send-letter-to-trump-about-koch-influence-a325904aa03c/" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;"><figure class="postfigure postfigure--format-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><div class="postthumbnail" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><picture id="picture-1047826" class="wp-image-1047826 size-full " data-id="1047826" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gettyimages-131426374.jpg?w=1920&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1287px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 1920px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gettyimages-131426374.jpg?w=1920&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1287px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1920px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gettyimages-131426374.jpg?w=1024&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C686px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1024px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gettyimages-131426374.jpg?w=1024&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C686px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 512px) and (max-width: 1024px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gettyimages-131426374.jpg?w=768&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C515px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 512px) and (max-width: 768px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gettyimages-131426374.jpg?w=512&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C343px&ssl=1" media="(max-width: 512px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gettyimages-131426374.jpg?w=768&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C515px&ssl=1" media="(max-width: 768px)" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gettyimages-131426374.jpg?w=4692&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C3144px&ssl=1" media="all" style="box-sizing: inherit;">
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Yamada was largely seen as one of the chief drivers behind a<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-secret-science-epa-lamar-smith-f5efd1dab736/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);"> deeply controversial “secret science” policy proposal</a> attempting to limit the use of private data in scientific studies. Such efforts have been a pet cause of retiring Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX); Yamada previously had a role working with Smith to draft similar legislation prior to interest from the Trump administration.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And during former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s tenure, the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">Heritage Foundation</a> — which has received numerous donations from the Koch brothers over the years — <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060076559" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">hosted a closed-door meeting</a> with Pruitt and others to discuss the policy.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his new role, Dunlap will help to oversee a number of crucial programs. The risk assessment program that produced a health study linking formaldehyde to cancer, for instance, falls under the EPA’s research and development arm. Trump administration officials <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/06/epa-formaldehyde-warnings-blocked-696628" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">have blocked that report</a>, seemingly due to pressure from the chemical industry. Formaldehyde is a prevalent chemical throughout the United States and is often found in items like particle boards and crease-resistant fabrics.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC, a Koch Industries subsidiary, is one of the largest formaldehyde producers in the country, and has lobbied against the study’s release <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-energy/2018/10/02/senate-to-run-lwcf-revival-359188" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">according to Politico</a>. As a former Koch employee, Dunlap will now be in a position to direct the study’s future, amid a heavy industry lobbying effort.</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPA is in the midst of a controversial streamlining effort; last week, the agency announced that the Office of the Science Advisor will be closing. Meanwhile, Dunlap’s appointment <a href="https://insideepa.com/daily-news/epa-taps-koch-industries-chemical-engineer-lead-research-office" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">will provide a measure of political leadership</a> within the EPA while allowing the Trump administration to avoid a Senate confirmation hearing.</font></font></font></p><div class="related-contentwrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-secret-science-epa-lamar-smith-f5efd1dab736/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;" /></font></font><div class="related-contentimage" style="box-sizing: inherit; align-self: flex-start; margin: 0px 1rem 0px 0px; width: 171px;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-secret-science-epa-lamar-smith-f5efd1dab736/" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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The Trump administration has overseen an onslaught of environmental regulation rollbacks, many directly benefiting fossil fuel industries, chemical companies, and corporate interests more broadly. 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Goes After <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trump</span> Administration For Chemical Deregulation Plan ...</font></span></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><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"><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"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6gyukRbbbxgJ:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-dunlap-epa-pfas-chemicals_us_5c591ba3e4b00187b554649f+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:6gyukRbbbxgJ:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-dunlap-epa-pfas-chemicals_us_5c591ba3e4b00187b554649f%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjF1NnC06fgAhUSX60KHcQPAZEQIDACegQIBBAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/koch-epa-industry-david-dunlap-chemical-water-1f08cfa2fb01/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thinkprogress.org/koch-epa-industry-david-dunlap-chemical-water-1f08cfa2fb01/&ved=2ahUKEwjF1NnC06fgAhUSX60KHcQPAZEQFjADegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/koch-epa-industry-david-dunlap-chemical-water-1f08cfa2fb01/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thinkprogress.org/koch-epa-industry-david-dunlap-chemical-water-1f08cfa2fb01/&ved=2ahUKEwjF1NnC06fgAhUSX60KHcQPAZEQFjADegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Former Koch staffer appointed to key EPA position – ThinkProgress</a></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Scope of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Koch</span> influence on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trump</span> climate policy under scrutiny.</font></span></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAYQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjF1NnC06fgAhUSX60KHcQPAZEQFSgAMAR6BAgGEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ewg.org/release/report-ex-koch-executive-put-charge-epa-s-pfas-plan" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ewg.org/release/report-ex-koch-executive-put-charge-epa-s-pfas-plan&ved=2ahUKEwjF1NnC06fgAhUSX60KHcQPAZEQFjAEegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; 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text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060110585" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060110585&ved=2ahUKEwjF1NnC06fgAhUSX60KHcQPAZEQFjAGegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">EPA: Ex-Koch official steps away from formaldehyde study -- Thursday ...</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h3>
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As director of policy and <span style="font-weight: bold;">regulatory</span> affairs, he was the lead expert on <span style="font-weight: bold;">water</span> and ... clearly demonstrates there are<span style="font-weight: bold;">safe</span> thresholds for formaldehyde exposure ... employer <span style="font-weight: bold;">Koch</span> to stay in line with President <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trump's</span>ethics pledge.</span></a></div></div></div></div></span></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lx0GNvIoCHgJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060110585+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:lx0GNvIoCHgJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060110585%2B%26cd%3D7%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjF1NnC06fgAhUSX60KHcQPAZEQIDAGegQICBAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"></font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lx0GNvIoCHgJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060110585+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:lx0GNvIoCHgJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060110585%2B%26cd%3D7%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjF1NnC06fgAhUSX60KHcQPAZEQIDAGegQICBAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" /></a><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"><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"><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"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunlap-david-78981834/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunlap-david-78981834/</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">Child Health Day, celebrated on Monday, was meant to highlight efforts taken by the nation to protect children’s health. As it turned out, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-child-health-day-2018/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">Child Health Day</a>, which kicked off <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/childrens-health-month-epa-offers-nearly-30-million-support-cleaner-water-and-air" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">Children’s Health Month</a>, served as a moment for the nation to come to terms with how the <b>Trump administration has prioritized the removal of industry regulations over health protections for children.</b></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken numerous actions that do not bode well for the future health of American children.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><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, 255);">And in the past week alone, the administration has introduce plans to rollback back key pollution rules,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> removed the head of the EPA’s <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-epas-sneaky-new-move-in-its-war-on-childrens-health-74fc9f55ce84/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">children’s health office</a>, and was shown to have scrubbed any mention of the impact of climate change on children from a draft document.</span></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">On Monday<span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">it was revealed that the Trump administration is </span><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-rollback-mercury-rule-trump-obama-health-coal-e66b43ec1501/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">moving forward</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> with a proposal to <b>rollback limits on lead, mercury, and other dangerous air pollution from the nation’s coal-fired power plants, putting children at risk from known brain poisons and toxic pollutants.</b></span></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, finalized in 2011, were <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/media/2018/181001" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">projected to prevent</a>up to 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks, and 130,000 asthma attacks yearly, while delivering annual health benefits totaling up to $90 billion.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">“What the Trump EPA is pursuing — the fraudulent denial of real-world benefits from clean air and climate safeguards — is the unholy grail of the polluting industry and its lobbyists,” John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said Monday in a <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/media/2018/181001" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">statement</a>.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">Then on Tuesday, E&E News <a href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2018/10/02/stories/1060100339" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">reported</a> that the <b>Trump administration removed language about how climate change affects children’s health from a <a href="https://www.eenews.net/assets/2018/10/02/document_pm_02.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">draft</a> EPA proposal on heat-trapping chemicals.</b></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An earlier draft of an EPA proposal on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">contained language about how children are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. 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text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;" /><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-epas-sneaky-new-move-in-its-war-on-childrens-health-74fc9f55ce84/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;" /><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-epas-sneaky-new-move-in-its-war-on-childrens-health-74fc9f55ce84/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;" /><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-epas-sneaky-new-move-in-its-war-on-childrens-health-74fc9f55ce84/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;"><font face="Times New Roman">Trump’s EPA makes ‘sneaky’ move to hamstring its children’s health office</font></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h3></div></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">“Every day we see more evidence that this administration is actively working against the health and safety of the most vulnerable Americans — our children,” Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said Wednesday in a <a href="https://www.ewg.org/release/white-house-strikes-discussion-impacts-climate-change-children-s-health-draft-epa-rule#.W7TwS3tKgdU" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">statement</a>. “Tragically, it’s not an exaggeration to say that the Trump administration is waging a war on children.”</font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">HFCs are used in refrigeration and air-conditioning appliances and are a significant contributor to the depletion of the ozone layer. Their atmospheric concentrations and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions <a href="http://time.com/4673826/greenhouse-gas-emissions-epa-hfcs/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">are known</a> to be rapidly increasing.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">Scientists are concerned about the rise in HFC use because they are thousands of times more potent on a pound-per-pound basis than carbon dioxide. The Obama administration, as part of its climate action plan, <a href="https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060043743/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">issued</a> a rule aimed at reducing the amount of HFCs released from appliances that use them as coolants.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">The news of the administration deleting language from the chemical rule came just days after the head of EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection was <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-epas-sneaky-new-move-in-its-war-on-childrens-health-74fc9f55ce84/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">placed on administrative leave</a> with no explanation, fueling speculation that the office itself may be eliminated.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">In a <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhisubbaraman/ruth-etzel-epa-childrens-health-office" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">letter</a> written by Ruth Etzel, the head of the office, she said: “I appear to be the ‘fall guy’ for their plan to ‘disappear’ the office of children’s health.”</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">Meanwhile, the EPA is also fighting a federal court ruling ordering the agency to ban of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which can cause brain damage and development disabilities in children at even low doses. In 2017, former EPA chief Scott Pruitt reversed an earlier decision to ban of the pesticide only weeks after <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/pruitt-dow-chlorpyrifos-2449662128.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">meeting with the head of Dow Chemical</a>, which manufactures the chemical.</font></font></font></font></p><div class="related-contentwrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-eliminates-key-research-office-074f12d18393/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;" /></font></font></font><div class="related-contentbody" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 513px;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-eliminates-key-research-office-074f12d18393/" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">ordered</a> the EPA in early August to bar the widely used chlorpyrifos <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">within 60 days</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. The court decided the EPA had been ignoring its own science that allegedly showed chlorpyrifos is a danger to children.</span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">The EPA, however, <a href="https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/crops/article/2018/09/25/doj-attorneys-make-case-ninth-unable-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">filed a petition</a> with the court last month asking for a hearing on the decision before all the judges on the Ninth Circuit. If the court order stands, chlorpyrifos would be officially banned as of next Tuesday.</font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The White House’s OIRA has removed references to climate change from other EPA proposals</b>, including its proposed Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, E&E News <a href="https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060095807/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">reported</a>. The ACE rule would <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/clean-air-climate-advocates-denounce-trumps-proposed-repeal-of-clean-power-plan-1fb7d98ad332/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">replace</a> the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration’s signature climate rule that would cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The new plan could result in up to 1,400 more premature deaths and up to 120,000 more asthma attacks every year, according to the EPA’s own analysis.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But, in celebration of Children’s Health Day on Monday, acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler held an event at the EPA courtyard. He did not address any of the changes at the agency that could harm the health of children.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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"><b>Instead, Wheeler touted the EPA’s efforts on behalf on children,</b> despite the long list of clean air and clean water rules the Trump administration has sought to undo. “Children’s health is a top priority at EPA, and we have made tremendous progress improving air and water quality and helping kids and families lead healthier lives,” he <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/childrens-health-month-epa-offers-nearly-30-million-support-cleaner-water-and-air" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">said</a> at the event. "</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">"The fact that Wheeler reportedly finalized a plan to repeal protections against mercury pollution just one day before he stood in front of a school bus celebrating Children’s Health Day is an insult to American families,” Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign Director Mary Anne Hitt said in a <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2018/10/wheeler-celebrates-children-s-health-day-gutting-standards-protect-children-s" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">statement</a> on Monday. “While Wheeler’s former employers reap the profits from rollback after rollback, our kids will be paying with their health.”</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to joining the Trump EPA, Wheeler served as a top lobbyist for Murray Energy, a major U.S. coal company.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In other attacks on children’s health, the Trump EPA <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-eliminates-key-research-office-074f12d18393/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">announced</a> to staff last week that it will move forward with plans to reorganize multiple offices housed under its Office of Research and Development (ORD). The National Center for Environmental Research, an EPA office that works to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children, will be shuttered as part of the reorganization.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; 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margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Environmental Protection Agency has hired a former Koch Industries staffer who worked on water and chemical policy to fill a key role within the agency, continuing a Trump administration trend of appointing company insiders to oversee the industries they are meant to regulate.</b></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">David Dunlap, a former Koch chemical engineer who has served as director of policy and regulatory affairs with the right-wing corporation since 2010, is joining the EPA as deputy assistant administrator for research and development. Prior to his eight years with Koch, Dunlap <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunlap-david-78981834/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">worked</a> for the Chlorine Institute overseeing health and environmental safety, in addition to roles with both the Uniform and Textile Service Association and Ogden Environmental.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As a chemical engineer, Mr. Dunlap has worked on environmental issues for nearly 30 years with a focus on<b> assessing risk,</b>” read a statement from EPA chief of staff Ryan Jackson. “His extensive experience on regulatory issues will be pivotal in our mission to protect human health and the environment.”</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc-holdings-investments" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">Koch Industries</a> is a massive conglomerate overseen by the Koch brothers, major conservative donors who have spent decades undercutting U.S. climate and environmental policies — the brothers’ fortune was made largely from fossil fuels but has since expanded to chemicals and manufacturing.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April, Senate Democrats <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-send-letter-to-trump-about-koch-influence-a325904aa03c/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">indicated</a> that they would probe the influence of the brothers on Trump administration policies, specifically with reference to the EPA and the Department of the Interior. Th<b>e Kochs have appeared to take credit for the rollback of the Clean Power Plan, among other Obama-era initiatives targeted by the Trump administration.</b></font></font></font></font></p><div class="related-contentwrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-send-letter-to-trump-about-koch-influence-a325904aa03c/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;" /></font></font></font><div class="related-contentbody" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 513px;"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-send-letter-to-trump-about-koch-influence-a325904aa03c/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" /></a><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"><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"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-send-letter-to-trump-about-koch-influence-a325904aa03c/" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;"><font face="Times New Roman">[Scope of Koch influence on Trump climate policy under scrutiny]</font></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h3></div></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">A spokesperson for Koch Industries <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/epa-names-former-koch-industries-figure-chief-of-research/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">told</a> Courthouse News on Monday that Dunlap is “not working for Koch Industries in any capacity” at this time, indicating that he has officially left his prior position with the company.</font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dunlap’s predecessor, Richard Yamada, left the EPA in September after only 15 months in the position. Yamada was largely seen as one of the chief drivers behind a<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-secret-science-epa-lamar-smith-f5efd1dab736/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);"> deeply controversial “secret science” policy proposal</a> attempting to limit the use of private data in scientific studies. Such efforts have been a pet cause of retiring Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX); Yamada previously had a role working with Smith to draft similar legislation prior to interest from the Trump administration.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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"><b>And during former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s tenure, the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">Heritage Foundation</a> — which has received numerous donations from the Koch brothers over the years — <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060076559" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">hosted a closed-door meeting</a> with Pruitt and others to discuss the policy.</b></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><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" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">n his new role, Dunlap will help to oversee a number of crucial programs. The risk assessment program that produced a health study linking formaldehyde to cancer, for instance, falls under the EPA’s research and development arm. Trump administration officials <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/06/epa-formaldehyde-warnings-blocked-696628" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">have blocked that report</a>, seemingly due to pressure from the chemical industry. Formaldehyde is a prevalent chemical throughout the United States and is often found in items like particle boards and crease-resistant fabrics.</span></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem;"><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" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC, a Koch Industries subsidiary, is one of the largest formaldehyde producers in the country, and has lobbied against the study’s release <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-energy/2018/10/02/senate-to-run-lwcf-revival-359188" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">according to Politico</a>. As a former Koch employee, Dunlap will now be in a position to direct the study’s future, amid a heavy industry lobbying effort.</font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">The EPA is in the midst of a controversial streamlining effort; last week, the agency announced that th<b>e Office of the Science Advisor will be closing.</b> Meanwhile, Dunlap’s appointment <a href="https://insideepa.com/daily-news/epa-taps-koch-industries-chemical-engineer-lead-research-office" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">will provide a measure of political leadership</a> within the EPA while allowing the Trump administration to avoid a Senate confirmation hearing.</font></font></font></font></p><div class="related-contentwrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border: none; display: flex;"><font face="Times New Roman">[Politics-driven ‘secret science’ initiative isn’t going over well with EPA staff]</font></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h3></div></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">Recent battles over agency nominees with industry backgrounds have proven bruising for the White House, although the administration has largely succeeded in its efforts to appoint officials <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/ferc-chairman-tied-to-industry-34a9af1be02d/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">with strong ties to the companies and sectors</a> they now oversee. That includes acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, who <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/andrew-wheeler-epa-regulations-stand-test-of-time-61172b68ec52/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">previously served as a coal lobbyist</a>.</font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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">Green groups and advocates argue that revolving door between industry and the federal government has taken a toll on environmental regulations. 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