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Former members of the Trump administration say that EPA under his watch laid the groundwork for the Biden administration’s efforts to address PFAS contamination. But health advocates say the Trump administration downplayed the risks of the chemicals, was slow to take action on PFAS and ...

Furthermore, stormwater now must stay onsite for a certain period of time to minimize flooding in a vault or a tank, which will increase the project’s costs. Downie and Farrell explained that the drainage system is under the field. “The only way it’s going to get into the drainage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...