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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Meet the EPA’s Ghost-Writer

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A scientist on the outer fringes of his field has been patiently making the case that the U.S. government applies far too conservative controls on toxins in the environment. Now, he’s trying to implement his ideas at the EPA -- by writing a sweeping new rule that could make the agency unable to regulate pollution & other contaminants. Guest: Susanne Rust, reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.8

I mean, how long have you covered the EPA?

0:44.8

So, I never, it's funny, people keep saying I cover the EPA and it's never something

0:48.4

I've ever sought to do and I've never thought of myself as somebody who covers the EPA.

0:53.5

What Suzanne Rust sought to do, years ago, was become a scientist. She worked as a biologist

0:58.8

at a fishery, but now she's a reporter at the LA Times, where yeah, she covers the environmental

1:04.5

protection agency.

1:05.5

What I've covered is the way I like to think about it is industry's role on science and environmental

1:12.9

policy and that happens to end up a lot in the EPA.

1:16.7

The scientific method still govern Suzanne's work. She thinks about cause and effect.

1:21.2

After all of these influences around us, toxins or climate or air pollution that affect

1:28.1

all of us at a very fundamental level.

1:33.0

It wasn't until I became a reporter that I began to see that there were these connections

1:38.8

between not just the science of all of these things, but the way we understand that science

1:44.7

and that really, really became interesting to me.

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