{"id":7269,"date":"2017-12-13T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:02:04","slug":"edf-applauds-doursons-reported-withdrawal-from-chemical-safety-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2017\/12\/13\/edf-applauds-doursons-reported-withdrawal-from-chemical-safety-position\/","title":{"rendered":"EDF Applauds Dourson\u2019s Reported Withdrawal from Chemical Safety Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0<\/em>is a Lead Senior Scientist.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Use\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/tag\/dourson\/\"><em>this link\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>to see all of our posts on Dourson.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-12-13\/embattled-epa-chemical-safety-nominee-withdraws-after-criticism\">press reports<\/a>, the nomination of Michael Dourson to lead EPA\u2019s toxics office is being withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/people\/richard-denison\">Dr. Richard Denison<\/a>, Lead Senior Scientist, said, \u201cThe withdrawal of Michael Dourson\u2019s nomination is good news for the health of American families. It was clear from the beginning that Dr. Dourson was a dangerous choice. His record of mercenary science made clear he would have undermined public health and damaged the historic chemical safety reforms passed by Congress last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration should now nominate a person of integrity, with a demonstrated commitment to protecting public health. Dr. Dourson must now leave the EPA, and the Administration should move forward to implement the new law as it was intended. Communities from California to North Carolina will be able breathe easier knowing Dr. Dourson will not be at EPA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0is a Lead Senior Scientist. [Use\u00a0this link\u00a0to see all of our posts on Dourson.] According to\u00a0press reports, the nomination of Michael Dourson to lead EPA\u2019s toxics office is being withdrawn. Dr. Richard Denison, Lead Senior Scientist, said, \u201cThe withdrawal of Michael Dourson\u2019s nomination is good news for the health of American families. It &#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":[44,114108],"tags":[91812,68],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-tsca","tag-dourson","tag-epa"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/12820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}