The former industry officials leading the EPA’s chemical and pesticide offices are undermining the agency’s decisions in ways that will harm public health, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said in a letter sent Thursday to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
These decisions reveal a “great hypocrisy” between what the Trump administration claims to care about in its Make America Healthy Again report and what Zeldin’s leadership is doing, said Merkley, the top Democrat on a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee that oversees chemical safety.
The Environmental Protection Agency said by email that it’s received the letter and will respond through proper ...