Treatment Plant Discharging into Kennebec River Processed Runoff Possibly Laced with ‘Forever Chemicals’
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PEER | November 6, 2019
“AUGUSTA — A wastewater treatment plant in Somerset County that discharges into the Kennebec River accepted more than 250,000 gallons of liquid runoff from a New Hampshire landfill that was potentially contaminated with the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. While the ...
EPA Declines to Avert Mass-Casualty Refinery Accidents
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PEER | November 5, 2019
Despite Near Misses, Agency Claims Ignorance on Hydrogen Fluoride Risks ...
Evaporating National Park Staff Levels
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PEER |
Overall Workforce Has Shrunken by More Than a Sixth Since 2011 ...
EPA Rejects Petition to Ban Chemical Used to Make Gas
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PEER |
The EPA won’t ban a chemical that oil refineries use to make high octane gasoline, jet fuel and marine diesel fuel. The Environmental Protection Agency rejected a petition that Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) had submitted asking the agency to ban hydrofluoric ...
Toxic Chemicals Can Be Dumped into Merrimack River, Federal and State Officials Say
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PEER |
“Federal and state environmental officials have renewed a controversial permit allowing a New Hampshire landfill to send as much as 100,000 gallons a day of polluted runoff to a Lowell treatment plant that empties into the Merrimack River, a source of drinking water to more than a ...
