Internal EPA Report Describes “Incredibly Toxic Work Environment” in New Chemicals Division

by Susan Sargent | March 30, 2022
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, which has been representing the whistleblowers and submitted the Freedom of Information Act Request for the internal report, said that the newly released document vindicated the group’s clients. “It supports everything they’ ...

Producers Warned by EPA that PFAS Is Contaminating Pesticides and Food

by Susan Sargent | March 29, 2022
Plastic storage barrels contaminated with polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may be in violation of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), according to an open letter released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last month. Manufacturers, producers, processors, ...

Dangerous materials used in firefighting foam are showing up in drinking water, soil

Colorado may have the largest number of sites in the nation that have handled PFAS chemicals, due to firefighting drills and operations at military installations, mountain wildland firefighting, and from PFAS chemicals in firefighting and other industrial materials at oil and gas ...

Groups say BLM ignoring environmental concerns when issuing grazing permits

by Susan Sargent | March 28, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management has been renewing livestock grazing permits on public lands in Oregon without a thorough environmental analysis, including on overgrazed land, according to two new reports. The Western Watersheds Project and the Public Employees for Environmental ...
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