In the News

Margo Oge, EPN member and former EPA Director, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, and Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality, is quoted in this article about Nicole Nason, the new head of the Federal Highway Administration, trying to delay EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars under President George W. Bush.

Mark Ryan, EPN member and former EPA Regional Counsel, Region 10, is quoted in this article about two executive orders meant to limit state powers to ensure that energy infrastructure projects—pipelines, in particular—aren’t held up.

EPN member Tina Levine, former EPA Director, Health Effects Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, is quoted in this article about a long-awaited federal draft risk evaluation of Roundup weedkiller that finds some cancer connections.

EPN members David Coursen, former EPA Office of General Counsel, and Robert Wolcott, an economist and former EPA Senior Counsel, Office of Research and Development, and Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy, wrote this op-ed about EPA’s proposal to eliminate the co-benefits of regulating mercury emissions from any cost-benefit analysis.

EPN members Bob Kavlock, former EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development and EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, and Thomas Burke, former EPA Science Advisor and Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development (ORD) and nominated by President Obama for Assistant Administrator to ORD, are quoted in this article about EPA’s Office of Research and Development’s plans to consolidate its science division.

Cynthia Giles, EPN member and former EPA Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, is quoted in this article about civil penalties for polluters plummeting under the Trump Administration.

EPN member Dr. Bernard Goldstein, former EPA Chair of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and former EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, is quoted in this article about the fractious CASAC teleconference on March 28 that exposed many troubling issues in the current review of particulate matter.

EPN member Joe Goffman, former EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate and Senior Counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, is quoted in this article about state environmental commissioners joining environmentalists to urge EPA and state governments to bolster the use of “alternative compliance” provisions in their rules limiting methane releases.

EPN member Joe Goffman, former EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate and Senior Counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, co-wrote this op-ed about the need to sue EPA to compel the agency to regulate methane.

EPN member John Bachmann, former EPA Associate Director for Science/Policy and New Programs, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, is quoted in this article about Administrator Wheeler’s claim that he disbanded two advisory panels of scientific experts because they were preventing the EPA from meeting deadlines set by the Clean Air Act.

EPN member John Bachmann, former EPA Associate Director for Science/Policy and New Programs, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, is quoted in this article about the Administration’s plan to dial back the standards for particulate matter. This piece also ran in Salon.

Dr. Bernie Goldstein, EPN member and former EPA Chair of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and former EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, is quoted in this article covering his op-ed about the Trump Administration’s unparalleled assault on the EPA’s mechanisms for ensuring independent scientific advice.

Betsy Southerland, Former EPA Director, Office of Science and Technology in the Office of Water, was interviewed on Seattle Morning News about EPA deregulation and attacks on science.

Dr. Bernie Goldstein, EPN member and former EPA Chair of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and former EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, had his op-ed published about the assault on the independence and expertise of the scientific advisory processes. The op-ed also ran in The Salt Lake Tribune, the Charleston Gazette-Mail, the Napa Valley Register and the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Taly Jolish, EPN member and former Assistant Regional Counsel, is quoted in this article about how crucial EPA regulations on PFAS chemicals are to protect public health and compel the cleanup of pollution.

EPN member John Bachmann, former EPA Associate Director for Science/Policy and New Programs, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, is quoted in this article about CASAC asking EPA to provide more expert help to review the hundreds of recent scientific studies on the effects of microscopic particles of soot on human mortality.

EPN members Joe Goffman, former EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate and Senior Counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, and John Bachmann, former EPA Associate Director for Science/Policy and New Programs, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, are quoted in this article about EPA’s “secret science” plan that would discount the health benefits that come along with controlling carbon emissions.

EPN member Bernie Goldstein, former EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, is quoted in this article about EPA’s decision not to release a completed review of the dangers posed by the widely used chemical formaldehyde.

EPN member John Bachmann, former EPA Associate Director for Science/Policy and New Programs, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, is quoted in this article about EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) urging the agency to reconstitute a specialized panel Trump officials disbanded to help review particulate matter (PM) limits.

Janet McCabe, EPN member and former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, is quoted in this editorial about EPA’s plans to reconsider how it weighs the cost of power-plant emission rules against their public health benefits.

EPN member Betsy Southerland, former EPA Director, Office of Science and Technology in the Office of Water, is quoted in this article about two major fossil fuel trade groups lobbying to stop the EPA from updating a decades-old list of toxic chemicals found in petroleum wastewater.

EPN member David Coursen, formerly at EPA’s Office of General Counsel, was interviewed about the Administration’s recent FY2020 budget proposal and its effects on EPA.

Stan Meiburg, EPN member and former EPA Deputy Administrator, Region 6, is quoted in this article about a massive chemical fire near Houston, Texas, that brought attention to the risk to communities located near facilities in the U.S. that use dangerous chemicals on a daily basis.

EPN member Tina Levine, former EPA Director, Health Effects Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, is quoted in this article about the lack of proof that the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, glyphosate, causes cancer, yet concerns linger about its safety.