White House Delayed Regulation of Controversial Chemical after Meeting with Lobbyists

[The Straight Story]

White House Delayed Regulation of Controversial Chemical after Meeting with Lobbyists


Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration’s top environmental official, has made it clear she thinks bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical used to make plastic products, is a dangerous threat to the public. And yet after chemical industry lobbyists met with officials at the White House in December, Jackson’s agency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, decided to pull back on regulating BPA for the next two years.

This revelation was reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as part of a three-year investigation into the risks posed by BPA, which has been linked to health problems for fetuses, infants and children.

But while the EPA has given up on regulating BPA, the Food and Drug Administration has decided to get tougher with the chemical’s use in products. The FDA says it will work to limit the public’s exposure to the chemical, which has been found in the urine of 93% of Americans tested, and seek to get manufacturers to report how much BPA they produce, where they make it and how it’s used, according to the Journal Sentinel.

The FDA’s moves represent a reversal for the agency, which previously was exposed by the newspaper for relying on industry data to judge BPA.

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/White_House_Delayed_Regulation_of_Controversial_Chemical_after_Meeting_with_Lobbyists_100222

[villager]

1. Of course.

n/t

[Echo In Light]

9. It does gets rather predictable

[FiveGoodMen]

2. !

[ixion]

3. shocked...shocked! I tell you...

:sarcasm:

[liberal_at_heart]

4. Oh, there's a shocker

[arcadian]

5. Meet the new boss... same as the old boss!

[dhill926]

6. god I miss President Bartlett........n/t

[katandmoon]

7. Another bullet item for Obama's impressive and ever expanding List O'Accomplishments!

[Captain Hilts]

8. DOJ's environmental enforcement chief had been a lawyer defending GE's pollution of the Hudson. nt

[Lorien]

10. Hey, whatever makes us sick is good for Big Pharma

and apparently this WH believes that whatever is good for Big Pharma is good for the US of A.

[progressoid]

11. :banghead:

:banghead:

[gulfcoastliberal]

12. Strong leadership we can believe in. If you're a plastics executive, that is.

The rest of us can eat endocrine disrupters and like it.