Chemical Safety Board Chair Resigns
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PEER | June 16, 2022
Lemos changed her duty station — where she’s officially based — to San Diego, rather than Washington, according to a report in The Hill. The agency said this change was more aligned with where she is working remotely as the agency continues to telework. The change was confirmed by ...
Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Scientists Warn
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PEER | June 15, 2022
But what Reardon calls stability, others call persistence. Data compiled by Alexandrino and his team show half-lives (the amounts of time it takes chemicals to dissipate by half in the environment) ranging from a few days to 2.5 years for top-selling fluorinated pesticides. That is less ...
Tracy’s Travesty: New Boss Same as the Old Boss at Bureau of Land Management
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It’s too bad for conservationists and all Americans, but Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden’s new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director, is continuing the Trump administration’s policy of destructive public land grazing. The BLM administers 246 million acres of public land, mainly in the ...
Environmental concerns raised: Vote passes to regulate CO2 pipelines running through OTC
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The MN PUC took up the issue of CO2 pipelines after CURE submitted petitions about the two current CO2 pipeline projects to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board in late 2021. The health and safety concerns of PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) and other ...
EPA imposes stricter limits on four types of toxic ‘forever chemicals’
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While the new levels could have significant consequences, they still represent “baby steps” in addressing the larger PFAS problem, said Tim Whitehouse, a former EPA enforcement attorney and executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “The EPA should be ...
EPA sets targets for slashing PFAS in drinking water
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And various advocates and experts also voiced concerns over components of EPA’s move. Erik Olson, who directs health and food work for NRDC, questioned the advisory for PFBS, which is significantly higher than the other four chemicals and seemingly out of step with some of the available ...