all right. here s an exclusive story. you ll not see this anywhere else. the man standing just left of the president in this picture, his name is andrew liverus. the ceo of dow chemical which is very nearly the biggest chemicalmaker in the world. he serves on the president s manufactuing council and on the previous president s export council. he seems to like the new one more between the two presidents. he says rather than entering a vacuum, i m getting e-mails from the president s team, if not every day, then every other day. hours a what we re working on. we need another meeting. that s him enthusing to the washington post about how good dow chemical has got it now with this new white house. three days after doing that
then there s the second memo we obtained. it specifically cites that, here s your pen andrew executive order. and then it says this. by may 15th, the offices of air and radiation, land and emergency management, chemical safety and pollution prevention, water, environmental information, congressional and intergovernmental relations and small and disadvantaged business utilization should provide the task force with recommendations regarding specific rules that should be considered for repeal, replacement or modification. while we intend to do some outreach rargd this effort, i d like the recommendations from those offices to be informed by consultation with their particular stakeholders and that is all supposed to be done by may 15th, which is six weeks from now. and that s the first step in the process. obviously, it makes it a huge difference who the epa considers to be a stakeholder affected by their regulations. if it s the dow chemicals of the world getting daily calls and
thing. should i give this pen to andrew? dow chemical. i think maybe, right? give the pen to andrew. dow chemical. pleasure working with you. that was the president rolling out executive order 13777 enforcing the regulatory reform agenda and thanking, by name, andrew, ceo of dow chemical for all the help. tonight we can report exclusively on how one part of the government is responding to that executive order. how it s going to work in real life. we got this exclusively in the sense that we have obtained new internal administration documents that have not been publicly released. we believe them to be genuine but the epa is not answering our questions about them. what these documents appear to show is a fairly sweeping change and how the government deals with questions like whether to ban a pesticide from dow
chemical when the government s own scientific studies have determined that pesticide is unsafe. and it isn t just about pesticides. it s broadly about clean air and clean water and things like keeping the public safe from radiation. again, the epa did not answer any of the questions we asked them about these documents but wh we believe these are are internal memos from inside the epa, and they show the first steps in how that part of the government is going to carry out that, here s your pen, andrew, executive order. the one about health and safety regulations. the memos appear to be from epa administrator scott pruitt dated march 24th. you can see there it says see the from line? from e. scott pruitt. then it looks to be his signature off to the side on the right. this first memo calls for epa regulators to start reporting any action they take, any regulatory action anywhere in the country. needs to now be reported in a central database.
but the epa is not answering our questions about them. what these documents appear to show is a fairly sweeping change and how the government deals with questions like whether to ban a pesticide from dow chemical when the government s own scientific studies have determined that pesticide is unsafe. and it isn t just about pesticides. it s broadly about clean air and clean water and things like keeping the public safe from radiation. again, the epa did not answer any of the questions we asked them about these documents but what we believe these are are internal memos from inside the epa, and they show the first steps in how that part of the government is going to carry out that, here s your pen, andrew, executive order. the one about health and safety regulations.