WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), both members of the Senate Environmental Justice Caucus; U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works; and U.S. Representative Brad Schneider (D-IL-10), Co-Chair of the bipartisan Ethylene Oxide Task Force, sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to underscore their opposition to the Trump Administration's decision to roll back a critical EPA rule that protected Americans from harmful exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO), a known carcinogen. In March, the Trump...