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Caught Our Eye

Senate aide has chemistry with new job

Posted by Nate Hoffman on May 17, 2016

A Senate environmental staffer has left the Hill to manage a chemical trade association's regulatory portfolio.

Anna Burhop left the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as a Republican professional staff member to become the new director of regulatory and technical affairs for the American Chemistry Council Inc. Recently, the trade association praised the Senate EPW chair Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and ranking member Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) for coming to an agreement on reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act. The ACC believes that reforming the TSCA should involve child safety, regulations based on sound science and not necessarily copy safety measures in other jurisdictions like the European Union or Canada.

Burhop began her congressional career as an intern for the committee in 2007 and climbed her way up the ranks to professional staff member, serving under both Inhofe and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.). She earned her BA from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and her MHA from Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.