How Biden’s team rushed to dump a Trump-era PFAS assessment
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PEER | September 1, 2021
“Kyla Bennett, who directs science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, meanwhile expressed alarm. The conversations, she said, “prove what we always suspected — Trump Administration political appointees improperly manipulated science at EPA,” ...
NPS faces growing pressure to ban single-use plastics
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Elizabeth Duan | July 22, 2021
“More than 300 green groups, businesses and nonprofits today called on the National Park Service to prohibit single-use plastics at its 423 park sites. Earlier this month, House appropriators criticized NPS for doing nothing to reduce plastic waste since the Trump administration in ...
Q&A: Retiring EPA career official talks Trump controversies
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Elizabeth Duan | July 21, 2021
“You recently spoke out against the allegation that PFBS [perfluorobutane sulfonic acid] risk assessments had been tampered with. You were quoted saying, “They are the product of biased political interference” that stands to erode the trust that the American public has in EPA and ...
Watchdog probing EPA evaluations for PFAS, other chemicals
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Elizabeth Duan | July 15, 2021
“EPA’s inspector general is probing the agency’s review of hot-button toxic substances, including so-called forever chemicals. The Office of Inspector General said yesterday it will initiate an inquiry based on a hotline complaint regarding risk assessments carried out ...