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Friday, November 17, 2017 at 7:23:12 AM
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Table of Contents (20 articles)
'EXCEEDINGLY UNUSUAL' CO LEAK FORCES FAMILY TO EVACUATE HOME
Tags: Canada, public, release, response, carbon_monoxide, illegal
WORKER EXPOSED TO CHLORINE GAS AT POWER PLANT SITE IN BIRDSBORO
Tags: us_PA, industrial, release, injury, chlorine, gas_cylinders
MULTIBRIEF: CALIFORNIA TO TEST FIREFIGHTERS‰?? TOXIC EXPOSURE
Tags: us_CA, industrial, discovery, environmental
CANCER: THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG FIREFIGHTERS
Tags: us_RI, public, discovery, environmental
MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION KILLS ONE IN PATIALA
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, death, gas_cylinders
TEXAS CHEMICAL PLANT HAD ONE-PARAGRAPH FLOOD PLAN AND WAS UNPREPARED FOR HURRICANE HARVEY, INVESTIGATIONS REVEAL
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, environmental, peroxide
CHEMICAL COMPANY‰??S UNREPORTED SPILL MAY LEAD TO WASTE BAN
Tags: us_NC, industrial, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
WORKER CONCERNED AFTER ALERT ABOUT CHEMICAL AT ST. PAUL ST. BUILDING
Tags: us_NY, public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
FRAMINGHAM: GENERAL CHEMICAL FAILS TO QUALIFY FOR SUPERFUND PROGRAM
Tags: us_MA, industrial, discovery, environmental, waste
ECHA NEWSLETTER
Tags: Europe, public, follow-up, environmental
CEDAR HILL SCHOOL GAS LEAK SENDS STUDENTS, STAFF TO HOSPITAL
Tags: us_TX, laboratory, release, injury, natural_gas
5-ALARM FIRE BREAKS OUT AT ST. LOUIS WAREHOUSE
Tags: us_MO, industrial, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
CSB URGES CHEMICAL INDUSTRY TO RETHINK EMERGENCY PLANS AFTER ARKEMA FIRES
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, environmental, peroxide
CHEMICAL SPILL CLEAN-UP IN SHELTON ONGOING
Tags: us_CT, public, release, response, other_chemical
ALLENTOWN HAZMAT CALL LINKED TO CHEMICAL REACTION (PHOTOS)
Tags: us_PA, laboratory, release, response, carbon_monoxide
OFFICIALS UNCOVER OHIO METH LAB, FIND INFANT INSIDE HOUSE FIRE
Tags: us_OH, public, fire, response, illegal, clandestine_lab
FEDERAL AGENCY PULLS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIO
Tags: us_LA, public, follow-up, environmental
ARKEMA PLANT FIRE INVESTIGATION: ANIMATION AND TIMELINE RELEASED
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, environmental, illegal, peroxide
EPA: 'DR. EVIL' COMES TO DEFENSE OF BELEAGUERED DOURSON -- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2017 -- WWW.EENEWS.NET
Tags: us_DC, public, discovery, response, other_chemical
TWO GOP SENATORS OPPOSE TRUMP‰??S EPA CHEMICAL SAFETY NOMINEE
Tags: us_NC, public, follow-up, environmental, various_chemicals
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'EXCEEDINGLY UNUSUAL' CO LEAK FORCES FAMILY TO EVACUATE HOME
Tags: Canada, public, release, response, carbon_monoxide, illegal
A bizarre carbon monoxide leak in Point Grey forced a family to evacuate their home on Wednesday after poisonous gas started leaking from the furnace of a neighbouring house into theirs.
The public information officer for Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services said he's never seen anything like it in his career.
"That is exceedingly unusual," Jonathan Gormick said. "The carbon monoxide was actually coming from a neighbouring house and being pulled into the air intake of the house in which the alarm was going off."
Carbon monoxide detectors started going off in a home on West 11th Avenue near Sasamat Street around 8 p.m. on Nov. 15, 2017.
He says it must have been the perfect combination of exhaust vent placement, air intake placement and air currents that night.
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WORKER EXPOSED TO CHLORINE GAS AT POWER PLANT SITE IN BIRDSBORO
Tags: us_PA, industrial, release, injury, chlorine, gas_cylinders
BIRDSBORO >> A situation involving hazardous materials brought emergency crews to a power plant construction site in Birdsboro Thursday afternoon.
Emergency crews were called to EIG Environmental, 1 Armorcast Road, just before 2 p.m. Thursday. Authorities say a gas was emitted from a cylinder in the ground prior to construction.
One male reportedly inhaled the chemical after the product exploded and he was quickly moved to a ‰??fresh air environment,‰?? according to first responders.
Emergency medical assistance was then requested. The man‰??s current condition is not known.
‰??Crews reported a yellowish liquid coming from the cylinder, when moved cylinder smokes,‰?? read a post from Fire Alerts of Berks on the incident.
At around 3 p.m. Fire Alerts of Berks posted an update saying the Hazmat team confirmed the chemical to be chlorine.
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MULTIBRIEF: CALIFORNIA TO TEST FIREFIGHTERS‰?? TOXIC EXPOSURE
Tags: us_CA, industrial, discovery, environmental
Now that the ash is settling after the California wildfires that engulfed more than 8,000 homes, buildings and businesses ‰?? including many in wine country ‰?? we turn to the important issue of recovery and rebuilding. Amid the loss of human life, $3 billion in property damage and the rampant dismantlement of neighborhood infrastructures, there is another looming issue: civilian and first responder public health.
The general trauma of the fires is almost indescribable, especially considering the magnitude of these compared with previous large-scale blazes. These fast-spreading 100 mile-wide wildfires certainly made terms like "Airpocalypse" and "Airmageddon" relevant all the way to the San Francisco Bay Area. Now there's a great need for health assessments and treatments ‰?? especially for children, the elderly and the infirmed.
Besides direct victims, there's not a group closer to the fires than the first responders. This is why a union-supported University of California study, using $100,000 from the nonprofit San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation, will begin testing up to 200 San Francisco, Santa Clara and North Bay firefighters.
In the research, 25 firefighters who did not participate in fighting recent fires will serve as a control group, and California's Departments of Public Health and Toxic Substances Control is offering testing support and lab services. About 11,000 firefighters were called to duty in the North Bay, but right now it is financially unfeasible to test everyone.
The Cancer Prevention Foundation was founded in 2006, and about 250 San Francisco firefighters have died from cancer since then. This should come as no surprise if you are aware of the kinds of chemicals that first responders are exposed to on duty. For example, toxic heavy metal traces of arsenic, copper, cadmium, and lead were found in a study of a 2008 California wildfire.
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CANCER: THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG FIREFIGHTERS
Tags: us_RI, public, discovery, environmental
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) ‰?? Alarming new numbers show firefighters are *three* times more likely to develop cancer than the average person. In Providence the number of cases is on the rise.
At 27‰??years‰??old, Donna MacDonald's childhood dream of becoming a firefighter finally came true. In 2001, she joined the Providence Fire Department, the first one in her family to suit up.
"Firefighting is heavy on tradition,‰?? says MacDonald.
In the next few years, she fought hundreds of fires, but then came one... that would change her life forever.
"It was a chemical fire. I broke out in a rash all over my neck and chest and the next day I came in wore that same gear again and exposed myself again and broke out with that same rash,‰?? says MacDonald.
Soon after that, she started having health problems.
She was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer in her sternum, in the same area where that rash developed.
"They have never seen it in a sternum before, it's usually in an arm or a leg,‰?? adds MacDonald.
The only cure is removing her sternum and replacing it with a prosthetic. Despite that, she stayed with the fire department, but years later the problems came back.
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MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION KILLS ONE IN PATIALA
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, death, gas_cylinders
PATIALA: A 21-year-old man was killed by a 'mysterious explosion' that shook the Mirch Mandi area neared the walled city, at around 1am on Thursday.
The impact of the blast was such that structures of two shops were reduced to rubbles, while huge damage was caused to two other shops adjoining the blast site.
The deceased was identified as Rajat Mittal, whose father Rakesh Kumar operated a small mustard oil bottling unit from the shop where the blast took place. Impact of the blast was such that the shutters of two shops were thrown away to a distance of more than 50 metres and the lintels of these shops came down crumbling on the ground.
As the incident was reported to the district authorities, a team of firefighters rushed to the spot to initiate rescue operations during which they spotted the body of Rajat Mittal that had also been thrown out on the road due to the impact of the blast. Doctors said that he had suffered several injuries and had even broken a number of bones that proved fatal for him.
Rajendra Kaushal, one of the fire officers who were first to reach the site, said initially they thought that the blast could have been caused due to an explosion in the gas cylinder kept inside the adjoining welder's shop. But as they started collecting evidence it came to light that there were no splinters of a gas cylinder following which they ruled out the possibility that the blast could have been caused due to blast in a gas or LPG cylinder.
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TEXAS CHEMICAL PLANT HAD ONE-PARAGRAPH FLOOD PLAN AND WAS UNPREPARED FOR HURRICANE HARVEY, INVESTIGATIONS REVEAL
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, environmental, peroxide
There were no signs that a Houston-area chemical plant attempted to move its highly unstable compounds offsite as a precautionary measure before Hurricane Harvey flooded the facility, triggering several fires and explosions, federal investigators said Wednesday.
Located in Crosby, just outside of Houston, the Arkema Inc. facility was officially placed in the 100-year flood plain in 2007. However, the plant's emergency response plan, which was revised as recently as last year, contained minimal instruction for containing floodwaters.
A copy of the plan was obtained and reviewed by the Associated Press, only said "care shall be taken to be sure water is kept out" of buildings at the facility. Arkema kept a log of workers' efforts to make the plant safer, but there was no mention of moving its organic peroxides, used in a variety of products from plastics to paints.
In fact, the plant's flood emergency plan was just one paragraph long, according to an investigation performed by the Houston Chronicle, and the facility's backup generators were too low to the ground.
(MORE: A Recap of Hurricane Harvey)
The company did not answer questions Wednesday about whether it discussed or tried relocating the chemicals.
"The facility was not prepared for such heavy rainfall," U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairwoman Vanessa Allen Sutherland said during a news conference Wednesday. She mentioned relocating chemicals as a safety measure companies might use.
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CHEMICAL COMPANY‰??S UNREPORTED SPILL MAY LEAD TO WASTE BAN
Tags: us_NC, industrial, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ‰?? North Carolina regulators say they‰??re suspending and may revoke a chemical company‰??s key permit after it didn‰??t report the spill of an unregulated compound.
The Department of Environmental Quality said Thursday it is moving to revoke The Chemours Co.‰??s permit to discharge wastewater from operations at its Fayetteville plant into a neighboring river.
Regulators say the discharge ban could come in 60 days because the company failed to report a spill last month of a precursor of the chemical GenX.
The agency said this week it was considering fining the Wilmington, Delaware-based company for failing to report the spill.
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WORKER CONCERNED AFTER ALERT ABOUT CHEMICAL AT ST. PAUL ST. BUILDING
Tags: us_NY, public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
Cancer, infertility, nerve damage -- all symptoms of exposure to the chemical TCE. And that chemical is present in a Monroe County building on St. Paul Street.
An internal memo sent last week alerted workers that the levels exceed state health guidelines, but says it falls within the permissible exposure limits. But employees who spend hours there every day aren't buying it.
"I remember being little and coming to visit here before everything was completed," says Anthony LiPetri.
LiPetri has a long history with 691 St. Paul Street. His mom has worked there since the day it opened. He followed her footsteps and works there now.
"She worked almost her entire career here; she was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer," he says.
‰?|A cancer that took her quickly. "She didn‰??t make it to her 50th birthday... she was dead."
For years, LiPetri questioned the air quality inside the building where his mom spent hours each day. He says he saw people in Hazmat suits doing testing and knew across the street there was a decade-long investigation into the presence of cancer causing chemicals, stemming back to when this area was used for Baush and Lomb's operations.
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FRAMINGHAM: GENERAL CHEMICAL FAILS TO QUALIFY FOR SUPERFUND PROGRAM
Tags: us_MA, industrial, discovery, environmental, waste
FRAMINGHAM ‰?? State environmental officials are coordinating with a contractor to begin partial cleanup of General Chemical‰??s former property in South Framingham as soon as June 2018 after federal officials indicated the contaminated site wouldn‰??t qualify for the Superfund program.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in June whether the property at 133 Leland St. would qualify as a national priority, making it eligible to receive money from a federal trust fund known as the Superfund.
But the site ‰?? a former hazardous waste transfer and recycling facility ‰?? failed to score high enough in a preliminary assessment, in part because the chemicals polluting the groundwater there are not currently harming humans or animals, DEP officials said at a meeting of stakeholders Thursday at Town Hall.
With Superfund assistance off the table for now, the DEP has asked its contractor to develop a plan to use the $1.85 million previously set aside by General Chemical to begin removing some of the chemicals through a process known as thermal remediation. That work could start as soon as June 2018.
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ECHA NEWSLETTER
Tags: Europe, public, follow-up, environmental
Half a century ago, the EU established the Directive on Dangerous Substances, planting the seeds from which the system for classifying, labelling and packaging of chemicals in Europe has steadily grown. We spoke to Gunilla Ericsson and Henk Roelfzema, two experts with decades of experience working on classification, to find out what we have learnt and how the history impacts today‰??s chemical safety.
Gunilla Ericsson.
Image: ECHA.
With a heightened public awareness about hazardous substances in the 1950s, for instance, due to controversies surrounding thalidomide and asbestos, the need to control them began to emerge.
In the EU, this was done 50 years ago with the introduction of the Dangerous Substances Directive in 1967. The aim was to harmonise the individual laws governing the classification, labelling and packaging of dangerous substances in each Member State.
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CEDAR HILL SCHOOL GAS LEAK SENDS STUDENTS, STAFF TO HOSPITAL
Tags: us_TX, laboratory, release, injury, natural_gas
A gas leak at a school in Cedar Hill sent students and faculty to the hospital on Wednesday. The fire department brought out a hazmat team to find the source of the leak.
The fire chief says 30 people at Collegiate High School & Academy were symptomatic and reported nausea. Of those, six students and two teachers were transported to the hospital as a precaution.
A district spokesperson says some teachers noticed an unfamiliar smell around 1 p.m. That's when they decided to evacuate and call the fire department. Then closed school for the day.
I‰??They worked with Dallas hazmat, came out also to help them with gas detectors to go through the building,‰?? said Cedar Hill Fire Chief John Ballard. ‰??They believe they found a gas valve in one of the science labs that was partially open. They shut it off. They checked the building and they cleared everything on it.‰??
The school spokesperson says this school has 500 middle and high school students. The eleventh and twelfth graders take classes at Cedar Hill College and were not present at the time.
That spokesperson says the district will be reviewing policies and procedures to figure out how this valve was left open in the first place.
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5-ALARM FIRE BREAKS OUT AT ST. LOUIS WAREHOUSE
Tags: us_MO, industrial, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
A five-alarm fire burned for much of the day and into the night at a warehouse in St. Louis where at least 80 firefighters responded to battle the flames. At least four people -- including two firefighters -- were rushed to the hospital for smoke inhalation. They were treated and released.
The building in the Botanical Heights neighborhood partially collapsed around 11:30 a.m. local time and damaged a fire department pumper truck, CBS affiliate KMOV-TV reports.
Fire department officials said, in vague detail, that the fire contains hazardous material, KMOV-TV writes. They are advising those in the area to avoid breathing in the smoke.
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CSB URGES CHEMICAL INDUSTRY TO RETHINK EMERGENCY PLANS AFTER ARKEMA FIRES
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, environmental, peroxide
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, concerned about the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, is warning the chemical industry to rethink its emergency plans in light of the Arkema fires in Crosby.
Hurricane Harvey flooded the site of the Arkema plant with more than 6 feet of water. Floodwaters caused the site to lose the ability to keep volatile organic peroxides cool, leading to massive fires over multiple days.
Arkema asserts in documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the level of flooding from Harvey could not have been predicted. The Crosby location had not received more than 20 inches of flooding in its history, according to the company.
At a news conference Wednesday, safety board Chairwoman Vanessa Allen Sutherland warned companies to not use the past to predict the impact of future storms.
‰??No one has a crystal ball, but we don‰??t want people to be lulled into a false sense that the plan they may have done two or three years ago is still going to be adequate,‰?? Sutherland said.
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CHEMICAL SPILL CLEAN-UP IN SHELTON ONGOING
Tags: us_CT, public, release, response, other_chemical
SHELTON ‰?? City residents should expect the intersection of Poplar Drive and Suren Lane ‰?? the area of a chemical spill earlier this month ‰?? to be reopened around Thanksgiving, a United Illuminating official said.
On Nov. 5, officers responded to the intersection of Poplar Drive and Suren Lane around 6 a.m. for a report of a motor vehicle that fled the scene of a nearby accident.
Police said the responding officers noticed a telephone pole with a transformer down across Poplar Drive. Officers also noticed a fire hydrant nearby that they said appeared to be hit.
The transformer, according to police, contained PCBs ‰?? polychlorinated biphenyls, potential cancer-causing chemicals.
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ALLENTOWN HAZMAT CALL LINKED TO CHEMICAL REACTION (PHOTOS)
Tags: us_PA, laboratory, release, response, carbon_monoxide
High levels of carbon monoxide that prompted the evacuation Tuesday of an Allentown business resulted from a chemical reaction, a city fire official said Wednesday.
The incident was reported about 3:15 p.m. at 460 Business Park Lane, home to PPT Research Inc.'s laboratory and production facility.
Authorities initially responded to the report of smoke in a garage bay, fire Capt. John Christopher said.
Firefighters finding high CO levels evacuated the workers and talked to them about what had been going on on-site.
"It was due to a chemical reaction," Christopher said. "These are products they normally mix together, it's fine, but there must have been an additional chemical in there that caused this. What it did, the hazard it created, was high levels of carbon monoxide."
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that can cause sudden illness and death. It is produced any time a fossil fuel is burned.
No one was reported injured Tuesday. Initial reports indicated more than one business was evacuated, but it was only the one where the incident occurred, Christopher said.
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OFFICIALS UNCOVER OHIO METH LAB, FIND INFANT INSIDE HOUSE FIRE
Tags: us_OH, public, fire, response, illegal, clandestine_lab
CLARK CO., Ohio (WCMH) ‰?? Ohio officials have arrested a man after discovering methamphetamines and a newborn infant at the site of a house fire.
Clark County Sheriff‰??s Office detectives noticed the fire on Tuesday just after 6 p.m. on Gerlaugh Road. Detectives found a large amount of evidence they say pointed to the manufacture and use of methamphetamines.
An infant was inside the residence and was exposed to elements of the meth manufacturing process, investigators said.
Detectives found a laboratory in a trailer in the backyard that was not actively operating.
The owner of the trailer, Larry D. Jenkins, is accused of starting the illegal burn. He was arrested and charged with felony counts of illegal manufacture of drugs and child endangering.
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FEDERAL AGENCY PULLS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIO
Tags: us_LA, public, follow-up, environmental
A federal agency that investigated the Deepwater Horizon disaster has withdrawn its recommendation to extend whistleblower protections to offshore workers, saying it agrees with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement‰??s reasons for refusing to enact the protections.
In its objections to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board‰??s recommendations, BSEE argued it doesn‰??t have authority to enact the protections, which the agency says are similar to regulations that already exist.
‰??The information, discussions, and deliberation all highlighted that there is unanimous agreement within the Board and among the staff that worker participation, effective ‰??whistleblower‰?? protections, and stop work authority are vital in any safety management regime,‰?? CSB wrote in a Tuesday report explaining the withdrawal. ‰??However, after extensive analysis and deliberation, in addition to the other issues raised above, the Board determined that this recommendation was most likely addressed to the wrong recipient.‰??
'A workplace free from fear'
The proposed regulations would have facilitated ‰??a workplace free from fear that encourages discussion and resolution of safety issues and concerns,‰?? according to the recommendation‰??s text.
Specifically, it would have required worker-elected safety representatives and committees at each staffed offshore facility, with the elected worker granted authority to issue enforceable stop-work orders if an operation or task is perceived as unsafe. It would have also required documentation of major hazards and meetings between workforce representatives, management and BSEE.
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ARKEMA PLANT FIRE INVESTIGATION: ANIMATION AND TIMELINE RELEASED
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, environmental, illegal, peroxide
HOUSTON - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board provided an update Wednesday into their investigation of the Arkema facility in the days before and after Hurricane Harvey.
Vanessa Allen Sutherland, the Safety Board chairwoman, at one point stated that one of the key takeaways of the investigations thus far is simply, "They did planning and the question is, why wasn't it enough?‰??
The CSB released a highly produced animation illustrating exactly what took place when Harvey was at its peak, including how power was cut off by man and Mother Nature.
The animation stated at one point, "Without power those warehouses were at risk of not staying cool enough to prevent decomposition of the peroxide."
This was pivotal since the decomposition could result in explosions. In the days that followed, residents within a mile and a half of the plant were evacuated, and more than a dozen sheriff's deputies were hospitalized responding to the explosions.
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EPA: 'DR. EVIL' COMES TO DEFENSE OF BELEAGUERED DOURSON -- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2017 -- WWW.EENEWS.NET
Tags: us_DC, public, discovery, response, other_chemical
One of industry's best-known hired guns has joined the fight to confirm President Trump's nominee to lead U.S. EPA's chemicals program.
The Center for Accountability in Science (CAS), a group tied to public affairs executive Rick Berman, is using online advertising and opinion pieces in support of making toxicologist Michael Dourson the next chief of the EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.
Dourson's confirmation bid has stalled in the face of united opposition by Senate Democrats and concerns expressed by some Republicans after constituents say they have been harmed by chemicals whose risks Dourson has downplayed for chemical industry clients.
A CAS-sponsored Facebook ad running this week says Dourson has four decades of experience and is "a strong choice for the job" of leading the EPA chemicals office.
Facebook says the ad targets people interested in EPA. In addition, CAS wants to reach people 18 and older who live in or were recently near Washington.
That description fits Gretchen Goldman, a research director at the advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists.
"I saw the ad when I was on Facebook and thought, 'Oh, wow, they must be getting nervous,'" she said. "We don't know who funded this ad, but it would indicate that someone is paying Rick Berman to promote Dourson, and the people who would benefit most are the chemical industry."
CAS also posted a video on YouTube on Monday with a similar message.
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TWO GOP SENATORS OPPOSE TRUMP‰??S EPA CHEMICAL SAFETY NOMINEE
Tags: us_NC, public, follow-up, environmental, various_chemicals
Two Republican senators said Wednesday that they won‰??t support President Trump‰??s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency‰??s (EPA) chemical safety office.
The opposition from North Carolina Sens. Thom Tillis and Richard Burr puts Michael Dourson‰??s nomination in danger. If one more Republican votes against him, he likely wouldn‰??t be confirmed to the post.
Even before Tillis‰??s and Burr‰??s opposition, Dourson was one of Trump‰??s most polarizing nominees. Democrats and environmentalists saw him as a lackey for the chemical industry who, for years, was paid underplay the harms of various chemicals.
The opposition from the North Carolina senators, first reported by the Wilmington, N.C., Star News, stems from a pair of major health controversies in the state surrounding water contamination at the Marine Corps‰??s Camp Lejeune and the recent discovery of the as-yet-unrelated chemical GenX in the Cape Fear River. The senators do not believe Dourson would be an effective force to protect the victims of those incidents.
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