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Arizona is launching PFAS mitigation efforts ahead of the EPA deadline. But critics say it isn’t enough

by Cronkite News | October 23, 2024
At last count, water systems with levels of PFAS above Environmental Protection Agency standards are serving between 83 and 105 million people throughout the country, according to the EPA. Arizona already has eight projects underway to address this issue. “To continue to allow Americans ...

One year later, federal response to parental concerns about Native school still unclear

by Lee Enterprises | October 18, 2024
Jeff Ruch, director of PEER’s Pacific office, said the report pointed to the BIE’s “lack of administrative competence and responsible oversight. So for example, I mean, one of the most attention-grabbing parts of the report was reports of sexual assault on students that was drawing ...

Lawsuits aim to prevent ‘illegal’ hiding of toxic chemicals by US regulators

by The Guardian | October 17, 2024
That leaves regulators attempting to protect the public without essential information for some chemicals and in effect creates a “shadow regulatory government” in the EPA, said Tim Whitehouse, a former EPA attorney who is now director of Public Employees for Environmental ...

EPA scientists retaliated against over chemical safety disagreements, watchdog finds

by Federal News Network | October 10, 2024
The EPA’s inspector general office, in a string of partially redacted reports, found managers in the EPA’s New Chemicals Division, part of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, retaliated against employees who raised concerns about chemicals being approved for ...

Supreme Court decisions could determine future of clean air, water in East Texas

by ETX View | October 8, 2024
As the Tyler Morning Telegraph and Longview News-Journal reported last year, some rural East Texas water utilities feared the rule would require the installation of expensive plant upgrades if PFAS contamination was found. “I think the PFAS drinking water standards are one of the first ...

EPA Whistleblowers Expose Agencies Efforts To Approve Harmful Chemicals

by The Washington Standard | October 5, 2024
After they were forced to leave their jobs assessing new chemicals, the scientists filed the first of what would be six complaints with the EPA inspector general in June 2021. Their allegations, which detailed industry pressure that continued under the administration of President Joe Biden ...
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