{"id":1868,"date":"2012-05-21T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:01:22","slug":"labor-and-public-health-advocates-to-the-chemical-industry-stop-bullying-federal-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2012\/05\/21\/labor-and-public-health-advocates-to-the-chemical-industry-stop-bullying-federal-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor and public health advocates to the chemical industry: Stop bullying federal scientists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D.<\/em><em>, is a Senior Scientist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After my long post this morning, I\u2019ll keep this one brief:\u00a0 The United Steelworkers, one of the nation\u2019s 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\u2019 listing of styrene as &#8220;reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.&#8221;\u00a0 The motion is in response to a chemical industry lawsuit attempting to force the agency&#8217;s National Toxicology Program\u00a0to withdraw the styrene warning, which was published in the 12th edition of the Congressionally mandated Report on Carcinogens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/2011\/06\/13\/acc-resorts-to-smear-tactics-to-defend-its-cash-cows-formaldehyde-and-styrene\/\">earlier post <\/a>for some background.<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s our groups\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/news\/press\/2012\/public-health-groups-move-to-enter-fight-over-toxic-chemical\">press release with more details<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/files\/2012\/05\/Motion-to-intervene-5-18-12.pdf\">the motion itself<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. After my long post this morning, I\u2019ll keep this one brief:\u00a0 The United Steelworkers, one of the nation\u2019s 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\u2019 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,56093,114108],"tags":[39148,5021,8099,5022],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-industry-influence","category-tsca","tag-carcinogens","tag-chemical-industry-tactics","tag-styrene","tag-worker-safety"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12656,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/12656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}