[CPEO-BIF] Union of Concerned Scientists files complaint about TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The White House Scrapped the Science on Trichloroethylene—So We’re Urging the EPA to Investigate

By TARYN MACKINNEY
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 1, 2020

When Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists concluded that the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) causes fetal heart defects, even at low doses, officials at the White House overrode their conclusions - an egregious example of political interference in science, and a violation of the EPA’s scientific integrity policy. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) submitted a formal complaint to the EPA, urging the agency’s scientific integrity office to investigate.

UCS is no stranger to tactics like these. For decades, we’ve tracked inappropriate political meddlingin science-based decisionmaking, and we’ve followed the Trump administration’s attacks on science for more than three years. However, few examples better showcase the extent of this administration’s interference than this: officials’ thorough, calculated erasure of scientists’ efforts to protect the nation’s youngest people - infants.

But what exactly happened, and why is political interference like this a problem?

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For the entire blog, see
https://blog.ucsusa.org/taryn-mackinney/the-white-house-scrapped-the-science-on-tricholorethylene-so-were-urging-the-epa-to-investigate

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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