The documents The Intercept obtained show that Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), sent the whistleblowers’ complaint to Michael Freedhoff, executive director of the EPA, at 5:54pm on June 28. Freedhoff then forwarded the complaint to six people within ten minutes of receiving Whitehouse’s email, “including Carol Ann Siciliano, who was then the EPA’s deputy science integrity officer; Mark Hartman, deputy director for management of the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, which includes the program featured in the complaint; and Tala Henry, deputy director for programs of the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, whom the complaint describes as having played a role in approving multiple chemicals that had not been properly assessed.” The Intercept reports that “Siciliano and Hartman were not implicated in the whistleblower complaint.”
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