The DuPont Fox Guarding The EPA Henhouse: Cyber-Monday Special Part 1
Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk | November 30th, 2020
Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk return to "Dark Waters" territory and discuss Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team appointee, Michael McCabe, an executive who worked for DuPont and tried to hide the dangers of the infamous pollutant known as "C8" from the public and attempted to dodge litigation.
Jay and Eric revisit what happened during the DNC Primary, how the election process should have been better, and why a majority of Americans on both sides of the political divide won't ever believe there wasn't a compromised election...
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THE BIDEN TRANSITION TEAM has appointed Michael McCabe to its agency review team at the Environmental Protection Agency. McCabe, who served as Biden’s communications and projects director between 1987 and 1995 and as deputy administrator of the EPA at the end of the Clinton administration, led DuPont’s defense of the toxic PFAS chemical PFOA.
McCabe began managing DuPont’s communications with the EPA about the toxic chemical in 2003, two years after he left his job as deputy administrator of the agency, and continued in that role until at least 2006. As The Intercept previously reported, his still fresh relationships with his former colleagues in government came in handy as McCabe skillfully and successfully helped the giant corporation dodge the agency’s efforts to set binding limits on the chemical.
The Guardian: "Dear Joe Biden: are you kidding me? - The president-elect has tapped a former DuPont consultant to join his Environmental Protection Agency transition board," Erin Brockovich | November 19th, 2020
The Independent: Erin Brockovich pens editorial criticising Biden for naming former DuPont chemical employee to EPA shortlist One of president-elect’s picks is a former employee of company," Graig Graziosi Friday 20 November 2020 21:33
"The responses are stunning in their stupidity. The venom against @ErinBrockovich in this thread forces me to question whether or not these other people actually care about the environment. The planet dying is only an issue with a Republican in The White House, I guess?" - Eric
