EPA Official Prevented Staff From Warning Public About Widely Used Carcinogen

by Susan Sargent | December 22, 2021
Yet one official, who holds a senior leadership role in the agency, felt that the dangers of PCBTF should not be mentioned in the assessment. In a December 18, 2019, email she described the chemical as “just a solvent there as a part of making it,” according to screenshots of the email ...

Florida Dept. of Agriculture pushes water polluters to clean up

by Susan Sargent | December 21, 2021
“To our knowledge, we have not seen any cases in Florida, zero cases in which the DEP has stepped in and taken court action to require these facilities, these agricultural concerns to obtain a permit,” Phillips said. Phillips has spent years reviewing the agency’s enforcement as ...

Environmentalists threaten EPA with lawsuit over the pollution killing manatees

“Lax enforcement and compliance for both point and nonpoint sources suggests that the current TMDLs are ineffective at controlling nutrients into the Indian River Lagoon. EPA must therefore reinitiate consultation to consider this new information suggesting that the current TMDLs are not ...

Environmentalists Threaten Lawsuit Over Pollution Killing Manatees

Existing regulations allow for up to 90 days each year of discharges from wastewater treatment plants during heavy rainfall, of up to several million gallons per day, but these are “poorly reported,” Earthjustice says. Meanwhile, the state has cut back on both the number of ...
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