Internal emails reveal how the chemical lobby fights regulation
By Emily Holden, The Guardian (US News), May 22, 2019
The US has long allowed companies to use thousands of chemicals with little or no data on whether they are safe. A 2016 update to US chemical laws is meant to require more testing, but critics say Trump’s EPA is using the new process to undermine ongoing reviews. The EPA says the changes to how it assesses chemicals will let the agency “expeditiously” regulate dangerous ones.
NOTE: From personal knowledge and experience, the American Chemistry Council cannot be trusted. Nor can the Administrator of the US EPA, at this time. The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a trusted professional society. Duane Nichols, Chem. Engr.