A high-ranking EPA official pointed out three Trump-era actions as examples of how not to handle scientific integrity in an internal email reviewed by Bloomberg Law.
Areas in which interference occurred were the EPA’s 2018 decision on whether to re-register a widely used pesticide called dicamba; its risk evaluation of trichloroethylene, a solvent; and the research office’s analysis of perfluorobutanesulfonic acid, or PFBS, according to an email Wednesday from Michal Freedhoff, acting chief of the agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.
The EPA approved dicamba in 2018 for two years after farmers had filed more than 4,200 official ...