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"EPA Unveils Strategy For Reducing Lead Exposure"

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced a revised strategy for reducing lead exposure, with a focus on communities that have had a disproportionate amount.

The draft plan would focus on identifying communities with especially high levels of both lead exposure and blood lead levels. The agency would next develop national standards and guidance to address those exposures and enforce existing regulations.

Source: The Hill, 10/29/2021

GenX: "EPA Deems ‘Forever Chemical’ Haunting N.C. Toxic To Humans"

"Hot off the heels of releasing its PFAS road map last week, EPA has found that a deeply controversial “forever chemical” that has contaminated drinking water in North Carolina is, indeed, toxic to humans and will be subject to a drinking water advisory."

Source: E&E News, 10/26/2021

"Plastics Poised To Overtake Coal As Climate Driver" - Report

"Plastics production is on track to become a major source in driving climate change, according to a report out today that finds the industry will outpace coal in greenhouse gas emissions within a decade."

Source: E&E News, 10/22/2021

People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action Plan as Too Little, Too Late

"Community advocates and environmental groups pointed out that the EPA has promised action on toxic PFAS pollution for many years."

Source: The Intercept, 10/21/2021

"How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution"

"DuPont factories pumped dangerous substances into the environment. The company and its offspring have gone to great lengths to dodge responsibility."

"FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — One humid day this summer, Brian Long, a senior executive at the chemical company Chemours, took a reporter on a tour of the Fayetteville Works factory.

Mr. Long showed off the plant’s new antipollution technologies, designed to stop a chemical called GenX from pouring into the Cape Fear River, escaping into the air and seeping into the ground water.

Source: NYTimes, 10/21/2021

Amid Massive Roundup Cancer Suits, Migrant Farmworkers Are Left Out

"Hampered by fear and deprived of resources, migrant farmworkers are unlikely to come forward and seek restitution."

Source: EHN, 10/19/2021

"Biden Administration Moves To Curtail Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’"

"The Biden administration moved Monday to regulate a group of long-lasting, human-made chemicals that pose health risks to millions of Americans, even as they continue to be used in an array of products such as cosmetics, dental floss, food packaging, clothing and cleaning supplies."

Source: Washington Post, 10/19/2021

120,000+ US Sites Feared To Handle Harmful PFAS ‘Forever’ Chemicals

"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified more than 120,000 locations around the US where people may be exposed to a class of toxic “forever chemicals” associated with various cancers and other health problems that is a frightening tally four times larger than previously reported, according to data obtained by the Guardian."

Source: Guardian, 10/18/2021

"EPA Plans to Clean Up Troubled Chemical and Pesticide Programs"

"The EPA announced the creation of two internal scientific advisory panels after whistleblower accounts of internal corruption."

Source: The Intercept, 10/15/2021

Ethylene Oxide: "EPA Eyes Broader Oversight Of Cancer-Causing Gas"

"EPA is set to ramp up scrutiny of facilities that do not currently report releases of a toxic gas as the Biden administration beefs up its environmental justice agenda."

Source: E&E News, 10/14/2021

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