“The complaints, filed through the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), claim that EPA managers succumb to pressure from manufacturers and intimidate scientists into approving new chemicals when they have insufficient data to make a safety determination or have hazard concerns.
‘EPA’s chemical assessment process has itself become contaminated by a cadre of entrenched career managers ignoring science,’ Kyla Bennett, PEER’s science policy director and a former scientist and attorney at the EPA, says in a statement. ‘EPA needs to do what it has never done before—identify and remove’ managers responsible for the problem, she says.”
