2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 18:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "White House, EPA headed off chemical pollution study"
 
White House, EPA headed off chemical pollution study
The intervention by Scott Pruitt’s aides came after one White House official warned the findings would cause a ‘public relations nightmare.’

By ANNIE SNIDER 
Politico 
May 14, 2018

Scott Pruitt’s EPA and the White House sought to block publication of a federal health study on a nationwide water-contamination crisis, after one Trump administration aide warned it would cause a "public relations nightmare," newly disclosed emails reveal.

The intervention early this year - not previously disclosed - came as HHS' Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry was preparing to publish its assessment of a class of toxic chemicals that has contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York to Michigan to West Virginia.

The study would show that the chemicals endanger human health at a far lower level than EPA has previously called safe, according to the emails.

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/emails-white-house-interfered-with-science-study-536950

See also http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/politico_pfas_atsdr_epa_levels.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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