# Labor and public health advocates to the chemical industry: Stop bullying federal scientists!

*Published:* 2012-05-21
*Author:* 

*Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.*

After my long post this morning, I’ll keep this one brief: The United Steelworkers, one of the nation’s top occupational physicians and EDF, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a motion to intervene in D.C. District Court, seeking to help defend the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ listing of styrene as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.” The motion is in response to a chemical industry lawsuit attempting to force the agency’s National Toxicology Program to withdraw the styrene warning, which was published in the 12th edition of the Congressionally mandated Report on Carcinogens.

- See this [earlier post ](http://blogs.edf.org/nanotechnology/2011/06/13/acc-resorts-to-smear-tactics-to-defend-its-cash-cows-formaldehyde-and-styrene/)for some background.
- Here’s our groups’ [press release with more details](http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2012/public-health-groups-move-to-enter-fight-over-toxic-chemical).
- And here’s [the motion itself](http://blogs.edf.org/nanotechnology/files/2012/05/Motion-to-intervene-5-18-12.pdf).