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Sewage Sludge and Contaminated Farms

by Progressive Farmer | February 20, 2024
With regulation of sewage-sludge fertilizer mostly unsettled nationally, a pair of Texas farms are suing the waste recycling and biosolids company Synagro for selling fertilizer that the farmers allege has affected their health, contaminated their water supply and left their fields and ...

EPA sets PFAS test for HDPE containers, faces new suit in Inhance case

by Plastics News | February 20, 2024
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… ...

The Battle For The Skies Over National Parks Drags On

by National Parks Traveler | February 20, 2024
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 ...

Environmentalists Sue EPA To Force Release Of PFAS ‘Safety’ Data

by Inside EPA | February 16, 2024
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 ...

Groups Sue EPA For Withholding Information On PFAS Use In Plastics Manufacturing

by Mealey's (Lexis Legal News) | February 16, 2024
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” ...

Enviro Orgs Sue EPA Over PFAS Data For Plastic Containers

by Law 360 | February 15, 2024
Two environmental groups accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday of withholding test data on the presence of forever chemicals in fluorinated plastic containers in response to their Freedom of Information Act request… Read the PEER Story… ...

Lawsuit accuses EPA of withholding ‘forever chemicals’ data

by E&E News | February 15, 2024
Two advocacy groups are suing EPA over claims it withheld data regarding the risks of “forever chemicals” in millions of fluorinated plastic barrels. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Center for Environmental Health, the two groups that brought the ...

Data on PFAS in Some Plastics Concealed by EPA, Lawsuit Alleges

by Bloomberg Law | February 15, 2024
The EPA has failed to disclose information the nation’s primary commercial chemicals law requires to be public, allege two nonprofit environmental advocacy groups in a lawsuit filed on Thursday. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Center for Environmental ...

Lawsuit Accuses EPA of Hiding Critical Data About Harms of ‘Forever Chemicals’

by Common Dreams | February 15, 2024
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday by a pair of environmental advocacy groups accuses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of “wrongfully withholding test data and other vital information” regarding the presence of so-called “forever chemicals” in millions of ...

PEER: Point Reyes National Seashore Cattle Deals Cost Taxpayers

by National Parks Traveler | February 13, 2024
The National Park Service is failing to recover fair market value on the leases for beef and dairy ranches at Point Reyes National Seashore, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which claims taxpayers are losing millions of dollars on the operations. The advocacy ...

Amid Damning Criticism of Its Scientific Integrity, EPA Takes Public Comments on Updated Policy

by Beyond Pesticides | February 12, 2024
As the U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) takes public comments on its updated scientific integrity policy (until February 23, 2024), Beyond Pesticides issued an action and reminds the agency that when it fails to carry out its mission to protect health and the environment—by allowing ...

EPA rejects Colorado permits for Weld County oil complex, citing problems in ozone fight

by Colorado Sun | February 7, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected four Colorado-issued air pollution permits at Weld County oil and gas processing sites, saying the state must rewrite the permits to ensure ozone-causing chemicals are burned off before hitting the atmosphere. Environmental advocates ...

Feds Slam Intervention Bids In BLM Grazing Analysis Dispute

by Law 360 | February 5, 2024
The Bureau of Land Management and green groups have asked a D.C. federal court to reject efforts by Idaho, Utah and a coalition of agriculture industry groups to intervene in the environmentalists’ lawsuit challenging the grazing allotments… Read the PEER Story… ...

Lawsuit probes EPA decision in allowing Oak Ridge landfill

by Public News Service | February 5, 2024
Environmental groups in Tennessee will soon learn more about the approval process behind a radioactive waste landfill which has been processing and storing highly enriched uranium for six decades. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the Environmental Protection ...

EPA tackles ‘forever chemicals’ with hazardous waste law

by E&E News | February 1, 2024
EPA released a rule that would list nine PFAS as “hazardous constituents” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, an action that could lead to cleanups of disposal and waste management facilities.   RCRA gives EPA the authority to regulate hazardous wastes the moment ...

Watchdog nonprofit says letters from top Bureau of Indian Education official appear to confirm existence of report on alleged crimes at Haskell

by LJ World.com | January 30, 2024
The Journal-World has obtained the two letters, sent by Bureau of Indian Education Director Tony Dearman in January 2023. The BIE oversees Haskell under the U.S. Department of the Interior. In the letters, Dearman delegates authority to propose and execute disciplinary actions based on the ...

Shipyard veterans may have been exposed to cancer-causing radioactive materials. The Navy has not told them.

by NBC Bay Area | January 27, 2024
Moments after he landed in Los Angeles for his son’s wedding last year, Gilbert “Kip” Wyand said he vomited a gallon of blood in the airport parking lot. Two months later, in May, Wyand was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia — a type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow ...

Roundup: Biden Administration Revamps Procedures for Reviewing Regulations

by Union of Concerned Scientists | January 26, 2024
A process President Biden launched during his first week in office aims to ensure all agencies adopt scientific integrity policies that prohibit improper political interference in scientific research and prevent the suppression or distortion of scientific information. After an inter-agency ...

Biden admin pressed on ‘forever chemicals’ limits in water

by E&E News | January 26, 2024
Individuals sickened after exposure to “forever chemicals” urged the Biden administration this week to press ahead with a pending rule that would set aggressive nationwide limits on the compounds in drinking water. Public drinking water is considered an important avenue for protecting ...

EPA has a new plan to protect career scientists, but some are questioning its efficacy

by Government Executive | January 24, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency is asking for employee feedback on its plan to protect career federal scientists from political influence and while early feedback from at least some of them is that the new policies are insufficient, EPA officials are pledging to be flexible and ...
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