Beck Suggests Trump Hiring Cap Undermines EPA's TSCA Implementation

February 21, 2018
Nancy Beck, the top Trump appointee in EPA's toxics office, says lawmakers should have authorized staffing levels for the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) program as they did for a pesticide fee program years earlier, suggesting the administration's government-wide hiring freeze is undermining the agency's ability to implement TSCA. Speaking on a recent webinar hosted by the law firm Bergeson & Campbell and media group Bloomberg/BNA, Beck bemoaned Congress' failure when lawmakers wrote the 2016 TSCA revisions to provide...


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