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Chemicals: Pruitt Meets, Disappoints Families Harmed By Paint Stripper [1]

"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt met today with the families of three men who were killed by a paint-stripping chemical that the Obama administration sought to ban from commercial use.

Drew Wynne and Joshua Atkins, both 31, and Kevin Hartley, 21, all died since last October while working with paint strippers containing methylene chloride.

The families sat down in the administrator's Washington office for about 35 minutes with Pruitt; Ryan Jackson, his chief of staff; Nancy Beck, the top political appointee in EPA's chemicals office; and two other aides, according to Brian Wynne, Drew Wynne's older brother."

Corbin Hiar reports for Greenwire May 8, 2018. [2]

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Source: Greenwire [2], 05/09/2018
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chemicals-pruitt-meets-disappoints-families-harmed-paint-stripper [2] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060081133 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [8] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81