Environmental Protection Agency sued over Oak Ridge landfill for radioactive waste
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Susan Sargent | October 27, 2023
Former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler nevertheless approved the plan, which required waiving Clean Water Act rules, in the waning days of the Trump Administration — a decision upheld by his Biden Administration successor, Michael Regan. Now, according to the Public Employees for ...
Nonprofit: National Park Service plan to reduce single-use plastics is too slow
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Susan Sargent |
NPS plans to phase out all single-use plastics by 2032, but the nonprofit says the time frame is too long. “The Park Service’s plan is a disappointing ‘plan to plan’ without any near-term steps for meaningful plastic reduction,” Rocky Mountain PEER Director Chandra Rosenthal said ...
EPA explains why it authorized imports of GenX from Netherlands to NC
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Susan Sargent |
This summer, Chemours provided confidential business information that addressed the previous information gaps. “Absent other disqualifying circumstances, it left EPA with no course of action other than to provide the conditional consent,” the agency spokesman said. Tim Whitehouse is ...
Nonprofit says Park Service plan to reduce plastic doesn’t move fast enough
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Susan Sargent | October 25, 2023
A new report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is critical of a Park Service plan to reduce single-use plastics. The nonprofit says other public lands agencies are acting faster on similar projects. The Grand Canyon was once one of a handful of parks leading the way in ...
Board tightens rules for testing water discharged from Santa Susana Field Lab site
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Susan Sargent |
The vote came a few weeks after the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, released a report showing that two highly toxic chemicals are not being monitored at the Santa Susana Field lab and potentially could leak into the Los Angeles River. The 2,668- ...
NPS accused of foot-dragging with 10-year plastic waste plan
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Susan Sargent | October 24, 2023
The National Park Service’s plan to ban single-use plastics at its 425 park sites by 2032 moves far too slowly, an environmental advocacy group said Tuesday. In an analysis of the plan, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility called it “needlessly protracted, encumbered ...