Chemical Defender Put in Charge of EPA Unit Overseeing Toxics

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared 1-bromopropane dangerous enough to make it one of the first 10 chemicals it scrutinized under an updated federal toxins law.

Nancy Beck disagreed. The EPA’s finding, she told a Senate hearing in March, 'is not consistent with the best available science.' At the time, she represented the American Chemistry Council, an industry group whose members include Dow Chemical Co. and Exxon Mobil Corp.

Now Beck has moved to EPA, where she’ll be heading the unit overseeing the toxics law."

Lauren Coleman-Lochner reports for Bloomberg May 24, 2017.