‘Dooming another generation of Americans’: The crisis of exposure to toxic materials
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Susan Sargent | August 22, 2022
Dr. Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a former EPA employee, told Daily Kos about how this failure spans across presidential administrations regardless of party. “We have not had an environmental president since ...
Water board, Boeing deal sets stage for cleanup to begin
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Susan Sargent | August 19, 2022
West Hills resident Melissa Bumstead, founder of Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab, said the group has identified 81 cases of pediatric cancer within a 10-mile radius of the SSFL. Jeff Ruch, founder and executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the ...
If Gov. DeSantis really wants to oust officials, here’s a list | Column
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Susan Sargent | August 18, 2022
Hamilton has only held the top DEP job for a year, but he was with the agency for 13 years before that. How’s he doing? Absolutely outstanding, according to the polluters. But if you’re interested in clean waterways, the answer is: Not so good. Every year, Jerrel “Jerry” Phillips ...
Music City Gold Tests Positive for PFAS, PFOS
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Susan Sargent | August 17, 2022
New analysis finds consistent concentrations of cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in Music City Gold, a product created by a joint venture between Metro Water and Tycowa LLC. The “organic rich bio-fertilizer” is advertised as “all natural” and “safe for plants, pets ...
Why scientists have pumped a potent greenhouse gas into streams on public lands
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Susan Sargent | August 15, 2022
The planning for this half-billion-dollar ecological project, and the construction of its monitoring instruments, took around twenty years. It began operating at full tilt in 2019. That’s the same year when a scientist at Yellowstone National Park started to question why NEON was ...
Why scientists have pumped a potent greenhouse gas into streams on public lands (TRANSCRIPT)
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CHANDRA ROSENTHAL: They’re doing these experiments on public lands like national parks and national forests, which this doesn’t fit with the mission of these agencies at all. GREENFIELDBOYCE: Chandra Rosenthal is with a watchdog group called Public Employees for Environmental ...