{"id":85779,"date":"2017-10-23T08:26:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85779"},"modified":"2017-10-22T22:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T02:08:49","slug":"gillibrand-issues-statement-on-news-that-trump-epa-nominee-dourson-advised-agency-before-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85779","title":{"rendered":"Gillibrand issues statement on news that Trump EPA nominee Dourson advised agency before confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kirsten Gillibrand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today released the following statement after learning that Michael Dourson, the nominee to be the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s top chemical regulator, has been advising the EPA despite not having been confirmed by the Senate:<\/p>\n

\u201cEven after being forced to withdraw a toxic nominee from consideration to become Drug Czar, the Trump administration has no shame. In another shocking example of the fox guarding the henhouse, the President has nominated Michael Dourson to be the nation\u2019s top chemical regulator. I was stunned to learn that Mr. Dourson has already started working at the EPA before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and full Senate have even had the ability to vote on this controversial nominee.
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\u201cThere is no way around it. Michael Dourson has spent his career helping chemical companies cover up deadly chemical contamination. His record of greenwashing the actions of chemical companies and placing their profits over the health and wellbeing of children is appalling. Because of his actions, the water that children drank, bathed in, and had their food cooked in was allowed to have unsafe levels of PFOA, a toxic chemical that is poisoning people in my state.
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\u201cMr. Dourson was even paid to go out in public to defend a safety standard for PFOA that was 2,000 times weaker than the EPA\u2019s safety standard.
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\u201cThe fact that he has already begun advising the EPA administrator shows contempt for the committee\u2019s role in his nomination process and more importantly a profound disrespect to the families who are terrified about what toxic chemicals are going to do to their children\u2019s health.
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\u201cThe EPA should immediately terminate its relationship with Mr. Dourson until the nomination process is complete and my colleagues have voted on the record whether they are on the side of protecting chemical companies or protecting families. I will vote to protect families and reject this terrible nomination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today released the following statement after learning that Michael Dourson, the nominee to be the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s top chemical regulator, has been advising the EPA despite not having been confirmed by the Senate: \u201cEven after being forced to withdraw a toxic nominee from consideration to become Drug Czar, the Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-mjx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gillibrand.jpg?fit=224%2C221&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}