Documents Reveal US Government Campaign to Undermine European Union Chemicals Policy

Documents Reveal US Government Campaign to Undermine European Union Chemicals Policy: "DOCUMENTS REVEAL US GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN TO UNDERMINE EUROPEAN UNION CHEMICALS POLICY
70 public interest groups call on Bush Administration to stop lobbying on behalf of chemical industry
September 9, 2003. Washington, DC-- A new report released today documents an ambitious, wide-ranging campaign by the US government to interfere with European Union efforts to reform chemical policy. The report provides new details about a story that broke today in the Wall Street Journal, entitled 'U.S. Opposes EU Effort to Test Chemicals for Health Hazards.'
The Journal story and the report released today by Environmental Health Fund are based on a series of internal government documents that lay out a multi-agency effort by the EPA, State Dept., Commerce Dept. and USTR to weaken EU chemical policy reforms on behalf of the chemical industry.
'This report paints a chilling picture of how the Bush Administration is intervening in the regulatory process of sovereign nations at the behest of the industry. As these documents show, the US government essentially operated as a branch office of the chemical industry,' said Joe DiGangi, PhD, author of the report. 'This merits a full Congressional investigation into the corporate influence over government actions at the relevant agencies and raises questions about the objectives of US foreign policy.'"