Nancy Beck

Nancy Beck is an appointee in the Environmental Protection Agency under the second Donald Trump administration and former executive at the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for American chemical companies.[1][2][3] In her role at the EPA, she evaluates chemical safety.[4][5] According to The Washington Post, "Beck is known for fighting strict chemical regulations and aligning policy with industry interests."[6]

In the second Trump administration, she pushed to deregulate chemicals that other EPA staff and scientists had raised health and environment concerns about.[7] Beck was also in a similar position in the first Trump administration where she was "credited with leading a wide-ranging pushback against chemical regulations."[1] In the EPA, Beck sought to scale back proposed bans on asbestos and methylene chloride.[1] She also rewrote rules to make it harder to track PFAS ("forever chemicals").[1][8] She sought to reverse proposed bans on TCE, a solvent linked to cancer.[6] Career officials at the EPA have raised objections to Beck's proposed changes.[9]

She worked in the EPA during the George W. Bush administration.[10] She was forced out by the Barack Obama administration.[10]

Before joining the American Chemistry Council, Beck was an analyst for the Office of Management and Budget for a decade.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Two Industry Executives Join E.P.A. to Help Oversee Chemical Rules". New York Times. 2025.
  2. ^ Borst, Ellie (2025-03-06). "Nancy Beck gets decision-making power in EPA chemicals office". E&E News by POLITICO.
  3. ^ "MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back". New York Times. 2025.
  4. ^ Tabuchi, Hiroko (2025-10-21). "From Industry to E.P.A.: Lobbyist Now Oversees Pesticide Rules". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  5. ^ Tabuchi, Hiroko (2025-10-21). "The Former Lobbyists Making Key Decisions at the E.P.A." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  6. ^ a b "Trump puts industry insiders in charge of overseeing chemical safety". The Washington Post. 2025-01-23. ISSN 0190-8286.
  7. ^ Lerner, Sharon (2025-12-08). "Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale". ProPublica.
  8. ^ Taft, Molly (2025). "The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028.
  9. ^ a b "EPA staffers, Trump official clashed over new chemical rules". POLITICO. 2017-06-22.
  10. ^ a b McKay, Tom (2017). "Report: A Chemical Industry Lobbyist Is Writing Toxic Chemical Rules at Scott Pruitt's EPA". Gizmodo.
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