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"Top Dem Challenges EPA For Skipping Hearing On Mercury Pollution"

"The chair of a House panel is crying foul over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to provide an expert to testify on the effects of toxic mercury air pollution.

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), the leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations panel that oversees the EPA, said the denial left the committee with “serious questions.”

“The EPA is supposed to be working for the American people,” DeGette said in a statement sent Monday night.

“If it’s going to ignore how a new rule would benefit public health going forward, then our committee – which is charged with overseeing the EPA – has serious questions as to whether it would still be acting in the public’s best interest.”"

Miranda Green reports for The Hill May 21, 2019.

Source: The Hill, 05/22/2019