"The nation’s main office for protecting Americans from harmful chemicals is welcoming its fourth prominent industry insider since President Trump took office, adding to an administration full of former lobbyists and corporate executives who are making environmental policy.
The US Senate confirmed Douglas Troutman as assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention on Thursday. Troutman most recently served as an interim CEO and lobbyist at the American Cleaning Institute, an organization that represents that supply chain of cleaning products and frequently pushes back against the regulation of chemicals, and questions science that finds cleaning chemicals harmful to health.
In his role at the EPA, Troutman will be helping oversee the regulation of pesticides and harmful chemicals, including managing the Toxic Control Substances Act (TSCA). While he was leading the American Cleaning Institute, the organization criticized the EPA for imposing “overly conservative assumptions and data requirements” through TSCA and lobbied extensively for TSCA reform.
He joins Nancy Beck, a former chemical industry executive with the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and now the office’s principal deputy assistant administrator; Lynn Ann Dekleva, formerly with DuPont and the ACC, and now the office’s deputy assistant administrator for new chemicals; and Kyle Kunkler, most recently with the American Soybean Association, who joined the office as the deputy assistant administrator for pesticides in July."
Brian Bienkowski reports for The New Lede December 11, 2025.
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