Opinion: An alarm is raised, little is done, and employees flee
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Chandra Rosenthal | July 8, 2022
Fed up with the state’s failure to regulate air permits and after years of quietly watching the quality of Colorado’s air decline, about a year ago three state employees bravely came forward. The whistleblowers called out the state Air Pollution Control Division for rubber-stamping ...
Legal challenges loom for reinstated EJ tool
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Susan Sargent | July 7, 2022
When he was at the agency years ago, former EPA attorney Tim Whitehouse recalled reviewing proposals that were not well documented or did not provide a clear nexus. “It gets tricky,” said Whitehouse, currently the executive director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...
Great River Energy’s dual fuel plan for Cambridge power plant ordered to undergo Environmental Review
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Susan Sargent |
Last week, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ordered an environmental review of Great River Energy’s plan to convert the Cambridge 2 natural gas peaking plant into a “dual fuel” facility—one that burns either natural gas or fuel oil. GRE called this proposal a “minor ...
Revealed: US water likely contains more ‘forever chemicals’ than EPA tests show
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Susan Sargent | July 6, 2022
The analysis checked water samples from PFAS hot spots around the country with two types of tests: an EPA-developed method that detects 30 types of the approximately 9,000 PFAS compounds, and another that checks for a marker of all PFAS. The Guardian found that seven of the nine samples ...
EPA tests underestimate ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water, study says
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Susan Sargent |
July 6 (UPI) — A new analysis of drinking water in the United States found Environmental Protection Agency tests are missing large levels of “forever chemicals” exposing millions to health risks, according to The Guardian. The Guardian analysis found the EPA’s ...
Investigation finds more ‘forever chemicals’ in U.S. drinking water than the EPA detects
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Susan Sargent |
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Policy Director Kyla Bennett told The Guardian that this lack of information should inspire people to act. “There are so many PFAS that we don’t know anything about, and if we don’t know anything about them, how do we know ...