Climate Changed
Chemical Defender Put in Charge of EPA Unit Overseeing Toxins
- Nancy Beck is administration’s choice to head toxics unit
- She represented chemical industry for last five years
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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.