Toxic Substances

EPN members Bob Sussman, former EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, and Linda Birnbaum, former EPA scientist, were quoted in this article discussing chemical regulations that would assist President Biden’s pledge to end cancer as we know it.

EPN members Penny Fenner-Crisp, former Senior Science Advisor to the Director, EPA Office of Pesticide Programs, and Bob Sussman, former EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, each wrote op-eds in this special section focusing on five years of the “new” Toxic Substances Control Act.

EPN members Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, and Bob Sussman, former EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, were quoted and EPN was mentioned in this article and in Chemical Watch concerning the release of the PFAS Action Plan. Betsy was quoted and EPN was mentioned in a WUSA9 article and news segment and a Bloomberg Law article also discussing the plan. Finally, EPN Executive Director Michelle Roos was quoted and EPN was cited in Government Executive.

EPN members Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, and Jim Woolford, former Director, EPA Superfund Program, were quoted in this article concerning the strong negative impact industry lobbyists had on implementing meaningful regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances during the Trump administration.