The Trump administration’s legacy is truly toxic, in the literal sense of the word. Read more >
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5 (Recent) Actions That Epitomize Andrew Wheeler’s Caustic Chemical Safety Legacy
Genna Reed, Senior Analyst
January 15, 2021 12:53 PM EDT
EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler Photo: USDA/Flickr
The Trump EPA Is Restricting EPA Science. It’s Somehow Worse than We Expected.
Gretchen Goldman, Research Director, Center for Science and Democracy
March 4, 2020 9:39 AM EDT
Yesterday the Trump administration issued a supplemental notice to a draft rule long feared by many in the public health and scientific communities as a major disruption to science-based policy as we know it. Here are five initial takeaways. Read more >
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks at the EPA Science Advisory Board meeting on June 5, 2019 Photo: Gretchen Goldman
Wheeler’s Breathtaking Ignorance of Science, in One Comment
Gretchen Goldman, Research Director, Center for Science and Democracy
June 6, 2019 8:58 AM EDT
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler raised some eyebrows at yesterday’s EPA’s Science Advisory Board meeting with one particularly misguided statement. Read more >
Fighting for Facts and Family: What Will We Tell Our Kids?
Gretchen Goldman, Research Director, Center for Science and Democracy
October 19, 2018 2:18 PM EDT
They call my name. I walk to the stage and sit at the mic. I feel the eyes of the government decision-makers in front of me and the audience watching below. I start to speak. I’m interrupted by a baby crying. My baby. He’s four weeks old and strapped to my chest. I look down and frantically try to put a pacifier in his mouth. I lose my place in my notes. An awkward pause. The audience hears only my baby crying as I struggle find the words I scribbled down in a notebook earlier. I finally find them, press on to the end of my testimony, and step off the stage. Read more >
EPA’s Proposal to Restrict Science Will Be Delayed: Score One for Science.
Andrew Rosenberg, director, Center for Science & Democracy
October 19, 2018 10:33 AM EDT
The Environmental Protection Agency released its updated regulatory agenda this week. That document lays out the timeline for regulatory actions the agency is working on over the next two years. One item of note: the administration is delaying by a year its timeline for finalizing the agency’s terrible proposal to restrict the science it would rely on to only those studies where the raw data and all other information can be made public. The science community and those who believe our public health and safety protections should be based on science can take some credit for forcing the agency to re-think and consult before moving ahead. Read more >