Posted on March 2, 2021

Robert M. SussmanRobert M. Sussman, JD, is the principal in Sussman and Associates, a consulting firm that offers advice on energy and environmental policy issues to clients in the non-profit and private sectors. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and  a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. Bob served in the Obama Administration as Co-Chair of the Transition Team for EPA and then as Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator from 2009-2013. He served in the Clinton Administration as the EPA Deputy Administrator during 1993-94. At the end of 2007, Bob retired as a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, where he headed the firm’s environmental practice in DC. Bob is a magna cum laude 1969 graduate of Yale College and a 1973 graduate of Yale Law School. During this call, Dr. Moline will discuss talc and asbestos, giving details on the dangers of talc, and where it can be found. Robert Sussman will discuss the policy and prevention of asbestos, and how talc fits into EPA initiatives under TSCA and bi-partisan legislation in Congress  to ban asbestos once and for all.