Unlike other major EPA offices, the agency’s chemicals program no longer says who is calling the shots while it awaits a Senate-confirmed leader.
Nancy Beck, a former chemical industry lobbyist, on Wednesday was the “principal deputy assistant administrator, performing delegated duties as the assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.”
The website was updated Thursday afternoon, and the delegated duties clause was deleted from Beck’s title. As principal deputy assistant administrator, the same title Beck held during President Donald Trump’s first term, she maintains decision-making powers as the office’s highest-ranking official.
Neither EPA nor the White House responded to questions before publication.
