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The agency rarely warns of cancer risks, even when its own research shows a product’s ingredients are carcinogenic.
Environmental and health groups said the rule will make people sicker and supports a dying industry.
“This bill is a chemical lobby wish list,” said one critic.
Researchers and watchdog groups say the level of industry influence in this administration is unprecedented.
Proposed changes are in line with suggestions from the National Association of Manufacturers’ “wishlist” sent to Trump.
The Trump administration has made fossil fuel production and use a central theme of its deregulatory agenda.
“Let’s celebrate coal again,” Ohio Republican Congressman Mike Rulli said at a press conference.