Markey: BP Agrees to Markey Demand to Release Worker Data
June 17, 2010 – Responding to pressure from Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), BP today sent a roster of workers involved in the clean up efforts to the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety a part of the Department of Health and Human Services. After discovering yesterday that BP was withholding this information, Markey pressed BP CEO Tony Hayward to release this data today at a hearing in the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. Markey asked Hayward if the company would release to the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety a roster of all workers involved in the clean up efforts, a request made by the Institute multiple times without acknowledgement. Within a few hours of Chairman Markey’s request, BP provided the information to the agency.
“We need to know just what the toxic plumes and toxic fumes are doing to workers in the Gulf,” said Markey, the chairman of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee. “There are still many troubling questions surrounding worker and resident health and safety. While it should have never taken this long for BP to concede this information, I am pleased that the company has taken the first straightforward step to provide Health and Human Services with critical information that is needed to track chemical exposure and potential health effects.”
On Wednesday, at a hearing of the Health Subcommittee, Rep. Markey learned in response to a question from Dr. John Howard, Director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that BP had failed to respond to several requests for this information.
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