Special episode: US Election

After a drawn out election week in the US, all eyes are on the White House to see how President Elect Joe Biden might use his executive powers to push ahead with his agenda through executive orders – a tool frequently utilised by Presidents Trump and Obama – as well as regulatory actions via federal agencies like the EPA.

And while the president-elect has laid out some of his priorities so far, Covid-19, economic recovery, racial justice and climate change, many questions remain over what a Biden administration agenda on chemicals policy might include.

To help shed some light on these questions, in this week's special US election podcast, Chemical Watch North America managing editor Terry Hyland is joined by a trio of experts who have experience within the EPA, the industry it regulates and the environmental community.

They include Robert Sussman of Sussman & Associates and counsel for the NGO Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. Mr Sussman also served as deputy EPA administrator under President Clinton and as senior policy counsel to the EPA administrator under President Obama. 

Terry is also joined by Erik Baptist, partner with Wiley Rein, former deputy assistant administrator for law and policy in the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention and former senior deputy general counsel in the Office of General Counsel at the EPA.

Also joining the podcast today is Jeff Morris of Morris Solutions, a former director of the EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.