Today, ThinkProgress reported that Andrew Wheeler’s EPA has hired David Dunlap, the former director of policy and regulatory affairs for Koch Industries to serve as deputy assistant administrator for research and development.

In his new role, Dunlap will help oversee the risk-assessment program that, earlier this year, produced a health study linking formaldehyde to cancer. Dunlap’s former employer, Koch Industries, through its subsidiary Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC, is currently lobbying the EPA against the study’s release. In other words, Dunlap has gone from an outside role, pushing to hide the dangers of toxics and chemicals, to an inside role, potentially serving in a position that ensures risks toxics and chemicals are ignored by the EPA.

Dunlap isn’t the first hire by Andrew Wheeler and Scott Pruitt with direct ties to corporate polluters who have been fighting to gut safeguards and protections -- he’s one of many. Of the 59 EPA hires tracked by the AP over the past year, nearly half have strong industry ties, with roughly one-third previously having worked as registered lobbyists or lawyers for chemical manufacturers, fossil fuel corporations, or other corporate polluters. Let’s start at the top:

Trump, Wheeler, and Pruitt have filled the agency tasked with protecting Americans from polluters chock full of polluters from each and every polluting industry. Americans deserve an EPA that will protect our families from dangerous pollution, not one that answers to every polluter’s beck and call.