{"id":327079,"date":"2010-02-16T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2010-02-16T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:07:38","slug":"bpa-listing-delayed-after-industry-meeting-with-obama-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/327079","title":{"rendered":"BPA listing delayed after industry meeting with Obama officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/watchdog\/watchdogreports\/84321857.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.jsonline.com\/images\/chemicalfallout_image_185.jpg\" width=\"308\" align=\"left\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/02\/15\/5\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: Eight days after a meeting between chemical industry lobbyists and Obama administration officials, federal regulators put off including bisphenol A on a list of dangerous chemicals that would be subject to stricter regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Four substances were included on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Environmental_Protection_Agency%2C_United_States\">U.S. EPA<\/a> list of chemicals that would face stricter labeling and reporting requirements released Dec. 30, but bisphenol A, or BPA, was left off, drawing criticism from environmental groups. EPA now says it won&#8217;t develop a tougher regulatory plan for the chemical for at least two years.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to drop BPA from the list is raising questions since EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has spoken on the need to protect the public from such chemicals. Critics say the meeting with chemical industry lobbyists might have been why BPA was omitted.<\/p>\n<p>EPA officials will not comment on why the chemical was not included on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Notes from the Dec. 22, 2009, White House meeting between the American Chemistry Council and Obama administration officials reflect that lobbyists pleaded the case for BPA to avoid stricter regulation. The lobbyists presented findings from a group of mostly industry-funded studies that downplayed the risks of the chemical and said tighter regulation would hurt their profits.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Journal Sentinel<\/em> reviewed the cited studies and found 13 of the 19 papers and presentations were paid for by the BPA industry. The funding source for the authors of two other papers could not be determined, and only one paper was written by a scientist without ties to the industry, it found.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also scoured e-mails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and found that government regulators have typically relied on industry scientists to give their opinions on BPA safety before their own staff had a chance to review the science.<\/p>\n<p>Entire sections of the earlier version of the FDA&#8217;s ruling that BPA was safe for all use had been taken word for word from earlier industry reports, it found (Meg Kissinger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/watchdog\/watchdogreports\/84321857.html\" ><em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 14). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3124&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3124\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Eight days after a meeting between chemical industry lobbyists and Obama administration officials, federal regulators put off including bisphenol A on a list of dangerous chemicals that would be subject to stricter regulation. Four substances were included on a U.S. EPA list of chemicals that would face stricter labeling and reporting requirements released Dec. 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