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Government examining plastic containers’ connection to ‘forever chemicals’

by Elizabeth Duan | July 22, 2021
“Known as ‘forever chemicals,’ PFAS chemicals used in products such as non-stick pans and stain repellents have long confounded scientists for their ubiquity in the environment – so commonplace that they show up in the blood of humans and animals in the furthest reaches of ...

NPS faces growing pressure to ban single-use plastics

“More than 300 green groups, businesses and nonprofits today called on the National Park Service to prohibit single-use plastics at its 423 park sites. Earlier this month, House appropriators criticized NPS for doing nothing to reduce plastic waste since the Trump administration in ...

Q&A: Retiring EPA career official talks Trump controversies

by Elizabeth Duan | July 21, 2021
“You recently spoke out against the allegation that PFBS [perfluorobutane sulfonic acid] risk assessments had been tampered with. You were quoted saying, “They are the product of biased political interference” that stands to erode the trust that the American public has in EPA and ...

Delray utilities official gives up plant operator’s license after watchdog allegation

by Elizabeth Duan | July 20, 2021
“The assistant director of the city’s Utilities Department has surrendered his plant operator’s license following a complaint he obtained the license under “false pretenses.” A watchdog group, the Tallahassee-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), ...

More Allegations That EPA Scientists Are Pressured To Alter Reports

by Elizabeth Duan | July 19, 2021
“Whistleblowers responsible for completing chemical risk assessments have come forward with allegations that their reports have been and continue to be “improperly altered to completely eliminate or minimize risk calculations,” according to a complaint filed by Public Employees ...

Colorado Whistleblower Complaint Launches Air Permitting Investigation

“On July 1, 2021, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that attorneys at Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP have been appointed as special assistant attorneys general to conduct an independent investigation into “allegations regarding alleged improper non-enforcement ...
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