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EPA Turnaround: Collecting Data on Fracking Risks Just Might be a Good Idea
Reversing a stand it took six years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will launch a $1.9 million research program to learn whether a technology that has spurred a boom in domestic natural gas production poses a threat to drinking water and public health.
In 2004, in a study that was not...
EPA Offers Free Access to Chemicals Inventory
It’s about time!
The US Environmental Protection Agency put out the word yesterday (March 15) that people who want to see its public inventory of industrial chemicals will no longer have to shell out their own money to get it. It’s a small but meaningful step on a longer and contentious road to give...
CNN’s Gupta focuses on Kid-Safe Chemicals Act
Posted by Elaine Shannon in EPA, Featured Articles, Legislation, Senate status, Tracking Kid Safe on February 26, 2010 | 6 Comments
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta reported this week that Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, intends to reintroduce the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act as the major vehicle for toxic chemicals policy reform “within the next month or so.”
In a segment called Chemicals, innocent or guilty, Gupta, a physician and CNN’s...
Secret Chemicals: File This Under, “You Gotta Be Kidding!”
But we’re not.
Here’s the story. When a chemical manufacturer finds out that one of its products “presents a substantial risk of injury to health or the environment,” the company is required under federal law to give that information immediately to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The...
EPA Moves on “Chemicals of Concern”
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Government (In)Action, Know Your Toxins, Legislation, Tracking Kid Safe on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
It’s good to see the issue of reforming toxic chemicals regulation getting widespread coverage in a variety of media. Just this week (Jan. 11), Scientific American magazine published on its website a good account by author Lizzie Grossman of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) year-end decision...
Top 10 Environmental Stories of the Decade — That You Might Have Missed
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Legislation, Pollution in People on December 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
EWG staffers put our heads together to come up with this list of bad news environmental stories over the last decade that people might have missed. But there were plenty of big stories that hardly anyone could have missed, such as climate change. What’s on your list of the biggest environmental...
Tests Find Hundreds of Pollutants in U.S. Tap Water
Posted by Nils Bruzelius in EPA, Environmental Health Science, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Legislation, State and Local on December 13, 2009 | 4 Comments
Millions of Americans don’t trust that the water coming out of their taps is safe to drink. New research by Environmental Working Group (EWG) suggests that for many, there’s good reason to be concerned.
Over the last three years, EWG assembled an unprecedented database of 20 million tap water testing...
Lautenberg Cites EWG Minority Cord Blood Report at Toxics Reform Hearing
Posted by Leeann Brown in EPA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, NIEHS, NTP, White House on December 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
At a hearing held before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and its Environmental Health panel on Wednesday, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health, cited Environmental Working Group’s minority cord blood...
Beginning of the (long overdue) end for federal toxics program?
Posted by Alex Formuzis in EPA on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
What happened this week in San Francisco was nothing less than historic.
Lisa Jackson, EPA’s chief and the president’s point-person on environmental policy, began something that should have happened 33 years ago: drive a stake into the heart of the horrendous federal chemicals regulatory program...
EPA may crack down on rocket fuel in drinking water
Posted by Elaine Shannon in EPA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
Fulfilling a confirmation pledge, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lisa P. Jackson is revisiting the Bush administration’s refusal to regulate rocket fuel pollution in the nation’s drinking water.
Jackson’s move, announced Wednesday, is being welcomed by the environmental community and...
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