The EPA Met With Lobbyists and 8 Days Later Changed Its Plans for BPA, Newspaper Says -- What's Wrong With This Picture?

Acronym Required: "However this week, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel criticized the EPA's December chemical action plans, questioning why bisphenol A wasn't on the top four list: The EPA's 'move' was 'drawing suspicion', explains the paper:

'the head of the Environmental Protection Agency had been talking tough in one speech after another last fall about the need to protect the public from such chemicals, particularly BPA...but when the agency's list came out Dec. 30, identifying four chemicals that would face stricter labeling and reporting requirements, BPA was not among them...'
Writes MSJ: 'Critics say the Dec. 22 meeting might have been why BPA was dropped from the top of the agency's list'.

BPA is on the agency's list. But to the Journal-Sentinel's question, why is it not first up in the most recent round of action plans? Did lobbyists pressure OMB/OIRA to change EPA's stance on Dec. 22?"