PEER Fears EPA May Use FY22 Hiring To Bolster Safer Choice, Not TSCA

March 25, 2022
A whistleblower group is raising concerns that EPA’s toxics office may seek to use some of its just-approved congressional authorization to hire new staffers for the Safer Choice program, which the agency is quietly seeking to re-establish as a full-fledged branch with 12 scientists and other permanent staff, rather than TSCA operations. EPA chemicals chief Michal Freedhoff late last year notified its staff union that “we intend to restore the management of the Safer Choice Program to branch status --...


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