Myron Ebell, who has been named as part of the transition team by president-elect Donald Trump for the Environmental Protection Agency, is a hardened climate change skeptic likely to relax regulations on farm chemical use and drift, roll back President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan and give the green light to more coal and logging.

His organization has called endocrine disrupting chemicals, widely believed to be linked to cancer, infertility, Parkinson’s and a host of other ailments, simply a “myth conjured up by anti-chemical activists.” His organization has also disputed the scientifically established link between neonicotinoids and bee health.

For a sobering assessment see Tom Philpott’s article in Mother Jones:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/11/trump-epa-pesticides

For past articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals in Community Word, go to our website at www.TheCommunityWord.com. And be sure to read the OpEd in our upcoming December issue: “Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Far More Costly to U.S. Than $340 Billion,” by Dr. Paul Winchester.