The ‘deep state’ of loyalists Trump is leaving behind for Biden
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Elizabeth Duan | January 19, 2021
“Donald Trump spent four years railing against a “deep state” of career federal workers he claimed was undermining his administration from the inside. When Joe Biden takes office this week, he may actually have one. And just last week, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard ...
Mosquito spray tainted with PFAS from shipping containers
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Elizabeth Duan |
“Environmentally persistent chemicals discovered in an insecticide aerially sprayed in more than half of US states leached into the pesticide from plastic shipping containers, the Environmental Protection Agency says. An assortment of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) ...
PFAS News Roundup
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Elizabeth Duan |
“Environmentally persistent chemicals discovered in an insecticide aerially sprayed in more than half of US states leached into the pesticide from plastic shipping containers, the Environmental Protection Agency says. “Shipping containers may be a significant source of PFAS ...
DEC: Pesticide isn’t the danger. Chemical in its container is
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Elizabeth Duan | January 18, 2021
“The state Department of Environmental Conservation is blocking the use of a popular pesticide for mosquito control upstate and in New York City following the revelation that the chemicals’ containers were made with hazardous PFAS compounds. Late last year, the Maryland-based ...
Park Police Officers Worried That Chronic Understaffing Could Endanger The Public. Then The Capitol Riot Happened.
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Elizabeth Duan | January 17, 2021
“A few hours before hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, a group of about 150 people breached a barrier around the base of the Washington Monument. Vastly outnumbered by the agitated throng, a clutch of US Park Police officers on ...