{"id":20588,"date":"2025-01-22T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20588"},"modified":"2025-01-22T15:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:36:30","slug":"two-chemical-industry-officials-expected-to-help-oversee-e-p-a-chemical-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20588","title":{"rendered":"Two Chemical-Industry Officials Expected to Help Oversee E.P.A. Chemical Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nancy Beck and Lynn Ann Dekleva worked in the first Trump administration, where they fought chemical restrictions.<\/p>\n

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A former chemical-industry executive who fought against stronger regulations under the first Trump administration is returning to take critical roles at the Environmental Protection Agency, two people with knowledge of the appointment said, raising concerns of corporate influence on chemical safety regulations.<\/p>\n

Nancy B. Beck, a toxicologist and former executive at the American Chemistry Council, the industry\u2019s main trade group, is set to reprise a role helping to oversee chemical policy similar to the one she held from 2017 to 2021, though her exact title and scope of work has yet to be determined, the people said. The chemistry council represents dozens of chemical companies and major manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Dr. Beck is credited with leading a wide-ranging pushback against chemical regulations during the first Trump administration, as well as what a subsequent internal investigation described as political interference in agency science<\/a> and policymaking. She rewrote rules<\/a>, for example, that made it harder to track the health consequences of a \u201cforever chemical\u201d linked to cancer, and therefore to regulate it.<\/p>\n

She also helped scale back proposed bans on other substances like asbestos<\/a> and methylene chloride<\/a>, a harmful chemical found in paint thinners. Neither the E.P.A. nor Dr. Beck responded to requests for comment for this article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hunton Andrews Kurth, the law firm where Dr. Beck served most recently as director of regulatory science, said she was no longer with the firm. Dr. Beck is listed in the E.P.A. staff directory as a political appointee.<\/p>\n

Dr. Beck is expected to be joined by Lynn Ann Dekleva, who also worked for the American Chemistry Council, who is set to return to a role helping to oversee new chemicals as deputy assistant administrator, though her title could still change, the people said. An environmental engineer by training, her career in the chemicals industry includes more than three decades at DuPont, the chemicals giant.<\/p>\n

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Nancy Beck and Lynn Ann Dekleva worked in the first Trump administration, where they fought chemical restrictions.A former chemical-industry executive who fought against stronger regulations under the first Trump administration is returning to take critical roles at the Environmental Protection Agency, two people with knowledge of the appointment said, raising concerns of corporate influence on chemical safety regulations.Nancy B. Beck, a toxicologist and former executive at the American Chemistry Council, the industry\u2019s main trade group, is set to reprise a role helping to oversee chemical policy similar to the one she held from 2017 to 2021, though her exact title and scope of work has yet to be determined, the people said. The chemistry council represents dozens of chemical companies and major manufacturers.Dr. Beck is credited with leading a wide-ranging pushback against chemical regulations during the first Trump administration, as well as what a subsequent internal investigation described as political interference in agency science and policymaking. She rewrote rules, for example, that made it harder to track the health consequences of a \u201cforever chemical\u201d linked to cancer, and therefore to regulate it.She also helped scale back proposed bans on other substances like asbestos and methylene chloride, a harmful chemical found in paint thinners. Neither the E.P.A. nor Dr. Beck responded to requests for comment for this article.Hunton Andrews Kurth, the law firm where Dr. Beck served most recently as director of regulatory science, said she was no longer with the firm. Dr. Beck is listed in the E.P.A. staff directory as a political appointee.Dr. Beck is expected to be joined by Lynn Ann Dekleva, who also worked for the American Chemistry Council, who is set to return to a role helping to oversee new chemicals as deputy assistant administrator, though her title could still change, the people said. An environmental engineer by training, her career in the chemicals industry includes more than three decades at DuPont, the chemicals giant.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20590,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20591,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588\/revisions\/20591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}