EPA likely underestimating amount of toxic forever chemicals in US water: analysis
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Susan Sargent | July 6, 2022
In seven of the nine cities, higher levels of PFAS were found in water samples when using a “total organic fluorine” (TOF) test that identifies markers for all known PFAS compounds than when using the EPA test—at concentrations up to 24 times greater. “The EPA is doing ...
RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH HAS “FOREVER” TOXIC CHEMICALS IN DRINKING WATER
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Susan Sargent |
Such chemicals as PFAS have been linked to a host of issues due to their toxicity. In fact, PFAS is linked to cancer, kidney disease, birth defects, and other serious health concerns. Meanwhile, the EPA has been restricted in what it can and cannot test, due to the previous administration ...
Hay dañinos “químicos eternos” en el agua de nueve localidades de EEUU que no siempre detectan las pruebas
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Susan Sargent |
Para esta investigación usaron dos tipos de pruebas: el método de la EPA, que detecta 30 tipos de los apróximadamente 9,000 que existen, y otro que comprueba todo componente del tipo PFAS. En siete de las nueve muestras, el segundo análisis encontró más altos niveles de “quí ...
‘Big problems’: The Supreme Court handcuffed EPA on climate change. What comes next?
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Susan Sargent | July 4, 2022
“It strips federal EPA scientists of their ability to help the American public tackle the worst effects of climate change, and the EPA of its power to protect the environment and our communities from a worsening climate crisis,” said Marie Owens Powell, president of AFGE Council 238, ...
Former NPS Chief Historian Robert Utley Passes At 92
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Susan Sargent | July 3, 2022
At issue were plans by the Park Service to build an enclosed theater seating 200 people at the base of Last Stand Hill, site of the climax of the 1876 battle in which Custer and five companies of the 7th Cavalry were wiped out. While concerns over the project had prompted then-National ...
How to define PFAS
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Susan Sargent | July 1, 2022
“The definition is the fundamental building block for regulation and EPA has an obligation to explain the basis for its PFAS definition,” says Kyla Bennett, science policy director for the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). “EPA’s current ...