NOAA’s tsunami sensors went down ahead of 10th anniversary of Japan’s Tohoku disaster
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Elizabeth Duan | March 16, 2021
“The nation’s main tsunami detection system experienced an outage March 9 when a broken water pipe in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Maryland headquarters knocked out the program’s servers, according to an agency spokeswoman. Ocean monitors positioned ...
Understaffed Chemical Safety Board Ripe for Revamp as Probes Lag
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Elizabeth Duan | March 15, 2021
“The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is running on fumes. With 80% of its board seats vacant and more than a dozen open investigations, CSB staffers are being asked to take on management responsibilities while the agency is run by Trump administration holdover Katherine Lemos, a self- ...
A New Era for the Bureau of Land Management
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Elizabeth Duan | March 13, 2021
“What steps can the Biden administration take to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Bureau of Land Management to better address its conservation and climate change goals? This question was addressed in a lively online discussion hosted by PEER (Public Employees for ...
State Waste Officials Back Superfund Law Class Designation For PFAS
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Elizabeth Duan | March 12, 2021
“State waste regulators say the lack of federal regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is hindering their efforts to clean up the chemicals, and they are calling for EPA to designate the entire class of thousands of PFAS as “hazardous substances” under the ...
Novel PFAS Test Method Spurs Fresh Calls For Class-Based TSCA Rules
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Elizabeth Duan | March 9, 2021
“Environmentalists say a new detection method for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that reveals a host of previously-unknown chemicals bolsters their call for EPA to regulate the class all at once under TSCA, warning that a piecemeal approach would stretch on for decades as ...