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EPA Chemical Reviews Corrupted by Industry Influence Zero Chemicals Disapproved in Thoroughly Broken Risk Assessment Process

Aug 05, 2021 View Original Article
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    -42% Medium Liberal

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    42% Medium Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : In a filing today with the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, scientists in the program submitted more than 60 pages of incriminating emails, text messages, and transcripts describing a rigged system in which - "EPA's chemical assessment process has itself become contaminated by a cadre of entrenched career managers ignoring science," stated PEER Science Policy Director Kyla Bennett, a scientist and attorney formerly with EPA, noting that the agency's Inspector General is evaluating PEER's first complaint regarding managers altering assessments without knowledge or consent of the assessors.
42% : "EPA needs to do what it has never done before - identify and remove responsible managers."
39% : The highly-touted system of chemical risk assessments mandated by statute just five years ago has been completely captured by industry, rendering it ineffective, according to a disclosure made by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists through Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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