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This Silicon Valley Space Startup Could Lace the Atmosphere With Mercury

by PEER | November 19, 2018
From: Bloomberg “Environmental scientists who’ve been working for years to curtail mercury pollution are frustrated by the potential emergence of a market for mercury propulsion, says Dan Jaffe, a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Washington at Bothell. “Using ...

CSB’s Focus On Employee Dispute Harms Investigations, PEER Says

by PEER |
From: Inside OSHA “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is faulting the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s (CSB) spending on legal fees in a dispute with the board’s former managing director, saying that CSB’s continued focus on ...

CSB Faces Continued Uncertainty Despite Democrats’ House Control

by PEER |
From: Inside OSHA “Despite Democrats’ control of the House next year, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) faces continued uncertainty about its future as its supporters fear the Trump administration may deprive it of a quorum to operate by not nominating ...

Senators Call for New Safety Board Leader

by PEER | November 16, 2018
From: E&E News “Prominent Senate Republicans have added themselves to the list of lawmakers calling for the White House to nominate a new Chemical Safety Board chair. The Trump administration has repeatedly proposed eliminating CSB, which investigates industrial chemical accidents, ...

Agency ‘Hemorrhaging’ Taxpayer Dollars — Watchdog

by PEER |
From: Greenwire “A government watchdog is criticizing the Chemical Safety Board for lacking transparency and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in a personnel case involving a former managing director of the agency. CSB will hold a closed-door meeting tomorrow on a “legal ...

Why The EPA Won’t Get The Lead Out Of Our Water

by PEER |
From: The National Memo “Public employees are pushing the EPA to rewrite its regulations which have helped enable crises like Flint, Mich., and now Newark, N.J. An estimated 15 million to 22 million people, or 5% to 7.5% of our nation’s population, drink water delivered through lead ...
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