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Update (December 14): After facing strong opposition, Dourson notified the Trump administration that he was withdrawing his bid for the EPA safety position yesterday (December 13). All 48 Senate Democrats and two Senate Republicans were against Dourson’s nomination, citing concerns about his past work for the chemical industry.
“I sincerely believe he is the wrong person to hold this important position, and it’s become clear that, even with a Republican majority in the Senate, he could not be confirmed,” Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE) says in a statement. “Dourson, an individual who has spent most of his career promoting less protective chemical safety standards, had no business overseeing our nation’s chemical safety laws.”
On Monday (July 17), the White House announced that President Donald Trump had ...