Trump Holdover’s Hasty Exit Not Fast Enough
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Susan Sargent | June 17, 2022
Chemical Safety Board Chair Lemos Resigns but Wants to Stay Thru July 22 ...
New Advisory for ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Announced by EPA
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Susan Sargent | June 16, 2022
“EPA had the courage to follow the science. This is a step in the right direction,″ said co-facilitator of the National PFAS Contamination Coalition Stel Bailey, as The Associated Press reported. The new guidelines only address four out of about 9,000 PFAS compounds, reported The ...
Chemical Safety Board Chair Resigns
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Susan Sargent |
Lemos changed her duty station — where she’s officially based — to San Diego, rather than Washington, according to a report in The Hill. The agency said this change was more aligned with where she is working remotely as the agency continues to telework. The change was confirmed by ...
Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Scientists Warn
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Susan Sargent | June 15, 2022
But what Reardon calls stability, others call persistence. Data compiled by Alexandrino and his team show half-lives (the amounts of time it takes chemicals to dissipate by half in the environment) ranging from a few days to 2.5 years for top-selling fluorinated pesticides. That is less ...
Tracy’s Travesty: New Boss Same as the Old Boss at Bureau of Land Management
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Susan Sargent |
It’s too bad for conservationists and all Americans, but Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden’s new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director, is continuing the Trump administration’s policy of destructive public land grazing. The BLM administers 246 million acres of public land, mainly in the ...