{"id":368601,"date":"2018-07-09T01:57:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-epa-suppressing-cancer-causing-chemical-study\/"},"modified":"2018-07-09T01:57:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T00:57:51","slug":"trumps-epa-suppressing-cancer-causing-chemical-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-epa-suppressing-cancer-causing-chemical-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s EPA Suppressing Cancer-Causing Chemical Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/07\/06\/epa-formaldehyde-warnings-blocked-696628\">New reporting in<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Politico<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>puts the spotlight on continued themes of the Trump administration: suppression of science, threats to public health, and carrying out the bidding of industry. The issue laid out involves alleged political interference at the Environmental Protection Agency, and while the agency\u2019s current administrator, scandal-riddled Scott Pruitt, is now<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/07\/05\/finally-victory-people-and-planet-epa-chief-scott-pruitt-resigns\">on his way out the door<\/a>, the reins now head to number two Andrew Wheeler, who offers little reason to believe the burying of a key report will soon end.<\/p>\n<p>As<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Politico<\/em>\u2018s Annie Snider reported, Trump appointees at the agency are blocking the release of an assessment on formaldehyde produced by the EPA\u2019s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). A draft assessment already completed confirms research linking the common chemical to leukemia, nose and throat cancer, and other adverse health effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re stonewalling every step of the way,\u201d an anonymous current official at EPA told<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Because the political aides are suppressing the assessment, they\u2019re preventing it from moving on to required review by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS), an independent panel of top researchers\u2014even though the EPA has already shelled out $500,000 to pay for that review. Why wouldn\u2019t it send off the assessment to NAS? \u201cYou don\u2019t want the answer,\u201d an anonymous former EPA official told<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Politico.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to internal documents seen by the publication, a chemical industry group urged the EPA to bury the findings. In a Jan. 26 letter to top EPA officials, Kimberly Wise White, who leads the American Chemistry Council\u2019s Formaldehyde Panel, wrote, \u201cAs stated in our meeting, a premature release of a draft assessment \u2026 will cause irreparable harm to the companies represented by the panel and to the many companies and jobs that depend on the broad use of the chemical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new assessment,\u201d as Snider reported, \u201cwould give greater weight to warnings about the chemical\u2019s risks and could&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/trumps-epa-suppressing-cancer-causing-chemical-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New reporting in\u00a0Politico\u00a0puts the spotlight on continued themes of the Trump administration: suppression of science, threats to public health, and carrying out the bidding of industry. The issue laid out involves alleged political interference at the Environmental Protection Agency, and while the agency\u2019s current administrator, scandal-riddled Scott Pruitt, is now\u00a0on his way out the door, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}