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The Environmental Protection Agency has released a method for measuring PFAS contamination in high density polyethylene containers, a step the agency said will allow industries that use fluorinated plastic bottles and products to better… Read the PEER Story… ...

Congress in 2000 passed the National Parks Air Tour Management Act governing scenic flights over national parks outside Alaska and the Grand Canyon National Park, which obtained its own flight plan in 1987. It directed the National Park Service to work with the Federal Aviation ...

Two environmental groups are mounting a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit to compel release of what they say is key “health and safety” data on PFAS contamination in fluorinated plastic containers at the heart of a sprawling legal fight over the agency’s authority to regulate ...

Biosolids containing “stunningly” high levels of toxins spread on a Grandview property pose significant hazard to neighboring properties and, potentially, to much of the rest of the county, county officials said. Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for ...

Two environmental groups on Feb. 15 sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking a permanent injunction directing it to disclose under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) all “wrongfully withheld documents” ...

Environmentalists are asking a court to force EPA to release data on the health effects of several PFAS that it has deemed “confidential business information” (CBI) under TSCA, further expanding a long-running legal fight over when material dealing with “health and safety studies” ...