Colorado May Have the Most PFAS Sites of Any State
Denver — Colorado may bear the biggest PFAS burden of any state even as the PFAS footprint across the U.S. may be growing several times larger than previously reported, according to documents released...
View ArticleCalifornia May Have Second Most PFAS Sites of Any State
Oakland — The PFAS footprint across California and the U.S. may be several times larger than previously reported, according to data released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility...
View ArticleEPAs PFAS Action Plan A Dud
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new plan to stem an escalating PFAS contamination crisis is woefully inadequate, according to Public Employees for Environmental...
View ArticleEPA Identifies More Than 120,000 Potential PFAS Sites in U.S.
Washington, DC — The PFAS footprint across the U.S. may be several times larger than previously reported, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility...
View ArticleEPAs Pesticides Office Labeled as a Failure
Washington, DC (October 26, 2021) – The Office of Pesticides Programs within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has become so captured by industry that it has lost sight of its health and...
View ArticleEPA Employees Pan State of Scientific Integrity
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View ArticleIs EPA Playing with Funny Numbers in its Methane Proposal?
EPA’s much-anticipated methane regulations have arrived. President Biden had called on the agency to regulate this super-potent greenhouse gas soon after taking office. On Tuesday, EPA answered with a...
View ArticlePark Service Shelved Employee Harassment Review
Washington, DC — A detailed examination of the toxic work culture within the National Park Service (NPS) has gathered dust for the past three years despite promises that it would be used as a critical...
View ArticleRadioactive Buildings Dynamited Near L.A.
Simi Valley, CA — The State of California has allowed the U.S. Department of Energy to dynamite two radioactive buildings without required dust control to prevent the spread of contamination and did so...
View ArticleBLM Fires Migratory Bird Whistleblower on Second Try
Washington, DC — A two-year effort by senior Wyoming Bureau of Land Management officials to terminate an environmental analyst who had embarrassed them for ignoring harms to migratory birds has...
View ArticleExpertise Gaps Plague EPA Chemical Assessments
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency programs for assessing hazards for both new and existing chemicals is hamstrung by an overall staff shortage but even more so by lack of needed...
View ArticleEPA Sued Over Refusal to Regulate Corrosive 9/11 Dust
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s corrosivity standard is so lax that it illegally subjects people who breathe or ingest unregulated alkaline dust to serious harm, according...
View ArticleEPA Hid Cancer Danger of Green Chemical It Promotes
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prevented its scientists from acting on data showing that a chemical it promotes carries a significant cancer risk, according to a complaint...
View ArticleEPA Tunes Out Industrys Chemical Safety Alarms
Washington, DC —Contrary to longstanding practice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency no longer publicly posts substantial risk advisories sent to it by chemical manufacturers, according to a...
View ArticleBidens Scientific Integrity Task Force Not Up to the Task
Washington, DC — In a long-overdue report, an ad-hoc interagency Task Force concedes federal scientific integrity policies do not work but offered only general suggestions as to how to strengthen them,...
View ArticlePark Service Masks Cuts in Sea Turtle Recovery
Washington, D.C. – Padre Island National Seashore continues dismantling its globally renowned Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Program but has issued a blatantly deceptive public statement to the...
View ArticlePollution Prosecution Plunge Continues under Biden
Washington, D.C. – Record low criminal anti-pollution enforcement levels under Trump remain largely unchanged so far under Biden. One key measure is getting substantially worse, however: U.S....
View ArticleEPAs Lax Methane Stance Decried
Washington, D.C. – By using a century-long timeframe for measuring the atmospheric impact of methane, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is inappropriately weakening efforts to combat climate...
View ArticleEPA Belatedly Posts Industry Chemical Safety Warnings
Washington, D.C. – Last night, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abruptly reversed course and publicly posted at least some of the more than 1,300 substantial risk reports submitted by chemical...
View ArticleForever Chemical Disposal Becoming Eco-Nightmare
Washington, DC —New data compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency underscores the herculean task of controlling pollution from toxic “forever chemicals”, according to Public Employees for...
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