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EPA finds toxic chemicals leached into common pesticide

by KOB4 News | January 15, 2021
“Toxins leached from packaging into a pesticide commonly used on mosquitoes, the Environmental Protection Agency has found, but the risks to human health are unclear. The EPA began testing the pesticide in response to findings from an advocacy group, Public Employees for ...

A ‘forever chemical’ surprise awaits Biden’s EPA

by Roll Call | January 15, 2021
“President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to address so-called forever chemicals that have been found in Americans’ drinking water and linked to many adverse health effects. But the scope of the contamination may be larger than previously understood given the EPA finding this week ...

EPA finds toxic chemicals leached into common pesticide

by ABC News | January 15, 2021
“Toxins leached from packaging into a pesticide commonly used on mosquitoes, the Environmental Protection Agency has found, but the risks to human health are unclear. The EPA began testing the pesticide in response to findings from an advocacy group, Public Employees for ...

New Chemical Safety Board adviser draws scrutiny

by E&E News | January 15, 2021
“A federal agency that investigates industrial chemical accidents has a controversial new adviser, drawing an unusual level of scrutiny to an often-overlooked entity in the Trump administration’s waning days. That history isn’t sitting well with some environmental groups ...

EPA probes PFAS leaching into common insecticide

by E&E News | January 15, 2021
“EPA has issued a request for information after an investigation into traces of “forever chemicals” linked to a common insecticide revealed contamination in certain containers, believed to be the source of the toxic substances. Discovery of the contamination came as part ...

EPA finds toxic compounds in mosquito spray used in Mass.; maker will change packaging

by Boston Globe | January 14, 2021
“The Environmental Protection Agency has acknowledged that a controversial pesticide used to kill mosquitoes in Massachusetts contains toxic chemicals that leach into the product from its container, and the manufacturer has agreed to change its packaging, officials said Thursday. ...

Guest Opinion: Environmental group cautions against fertilizer waste in roads

by Idaho Statesman | January 10, 2021
“One of the final gifts of the Trump administration to industrial polluters was to give the green light for fertilizer manufacturers to sell their toxic waste for government road construction. This decision overturned a 31-year U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ban of such use of ...

Foreign visitors could face higher entry fees

by E&E News | January 8, 2021
“Foreign tourists could pay more to enter the country’s national parks under a new plan floated by the head of the National Park System Advisory Board. Jeff Ruch, Pacific director of the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said raising rates for ...

The Washington, D.C., siege has Western roots and consequences

by High Country News | January 8, 2021
“Five years and four days after armed militiamen took over the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, a remote federal wildlife preserve in eastern Oregon, for 41 days, supporters of President Donald Trump stormed and briefly occupied the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. While ...

Transition Roundup: Senate Runoff Outcomes Will Shape Biden’s Presidency; National Guard Prepares for Pro-Trump Election Protests

by Government Executive | January 5, 2021
“In a recent filing in a lawsuit brought on by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Justice Department acknowledged that Trump lost the presidential election, the group flagged in a press release on Tuesday. Justice Department lawyers said PEER’s case challenging ...

Giving Up the Game, DOJ Argues in Court Filing That Trump Lost 2020 Election

by Common Dreams | January 5, 2021
“In a court filing submitted in late December as part of a lawsuit contesting the status of Trump administration officials serving unconfirmed in “temporary” positions, lawyers with the U.S. Justice Department argued the case should be tossed out because the issue would ...

With Trump’s Late-Term ‘War on Wildlife,’ 135 NGOs Implore Biden for E.O. to Slow the ‘Extinction Crisis’

by Enviro News | January 5, 2021
“On December 21, 2020, 135 organizations called on President-elect Joe Biden to issue an executive order to end the “extinction crisis” when he gets into office, according to a press release. In light of the Trump Administration’s pro-industry agenda, which includes two ...

Justice Department lawyers acknowledge presidential transition in court filing

by The Hill | January 4, 2021
“The Justice Department has acknowledged that a new administration will take office later this month in a recent court filing despite President Trump’s refusal to concede the election and the pressure on staff and officials to not acknowledge his defeat. Department lawyers argued ...

Renewed call for shipyard excavation moratorium – the legal legacy of harm to the Hunters Point community

by San Francisco Bay View | January 1, 2021
““On behalf of named plaintiffs and thousands of other victims to be named, including residents, deceased family members and unborn children,” renowned civil rights attorneys Bonner & Bonner filed a $27 billion lawsuit on May 1, 2018, for damages arising from “generational ...

2020 Year In Review: Stories That Deserve A Second Look

by National Parks Traveler | December 28, 2020
“Funding Cuts Imperil Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Program At Padre Island National Seashore A National Park Service review of the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle recovery program at Padre Island National Seashore is calling for substantial funding cuts and programmatic changes that ...

Manasota 88 Joins Lawsuit Challenging EPA Approval of Radioactive Roads

by Bradenton Times | December 27, 2020
“Local environmental group Manasota 88 joined public health and union groups in a suit filed against the Environmental Protection Agency last week for approving the use of radioactive phosphogypsum in roads. The groups also petitioned the agency to reconsider its October 20 approval ...

Coalition of environmental, health, and union activists mount challenges to radioactive-roads policy

by Florida Phoenix | December 22, 2020
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has drawn a lawsuit and an administrative challenge over its decision to allow use of a radioactive byproduct of fertilizer production to pave roads. In its administrative challenge filed on Dec. 18, the center, backed by organizations ...

Trump Administration Loosens Protection for Florida Wetlands

by Natural Resources Defense Council | December 21, 2020
“I grew up in south Florida and every time I return home for the holidays, it looks different. I notice more development of sensitive natural areas like wetlands and upland pine flatwoods to make way for sprawling cookie cutter gated residential developments and the commercial retail ...

Groups challenge EPA rule allowing roads built with gypsum waste, prevalent in Louisiana

by Nola.com | December 18, 2020
“A group of environmental and union organizations recently challenged a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency policy that would allow phosphogypsum wastes that contain small amounts of radioactivity to be used in federal, state and local road construction projects. The other ...

Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA’s Approval of Radioactive Roads

by Center for Biological Diversity | December 18, 2020
“Environmental, public health and union groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for approving the use of radioactive phosphogypsum in roads. The groups also petitioned the agency to reconsider its Oct. 20 approval. Today’s lawsuit was filed on behalf of Center for ...
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