Regulator waffles on bisphenol A

EPA's tough talk goes silent after lobbyist meeting

By Meg Kissinger of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Feb. 14, 2010 |(22) Comments

Eight days after chemical industry lobbyists met with Obama administration officials, federal regulators delayed action on including bisphenol A in a new effort to better regulate dangerous chemicals.

The move is drawing suspicion, considering how the head of the Environmental Protection Agency had been talking tough in one speech after another last fall about the need to protect the public from such chemicals, particularly BPA.