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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

Brag

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), in consultation with the U.S.

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A Call for Government Agencies to Fill Research Gaps on Women’s Health 

Union of Concerned Scientists

For example, NASEM has published landmark reports on the health effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation. This was proven by showing the health harms that can be caused by ionizing radiation disproportionately increased among these vulnerable groups after similar exposures in their counterpart peers. 2006 , NCI 1997 ).

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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Circle of Blue

In the 1980s, Homestake promised residents groundwater would be cleaned within a decade, locals told the Environmental Protection Agency and ProPublica. After missing that target, the company told regulators it would complete the job around 2006, then by 2013. All the houses are going to be gone. The wells are being plugged.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

µm in diameter, which include our black carbon particles of interest, have been shown to be particularly problematic because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and blood stream and cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease (Pope and Dockery, 2006; Brook et al., link] US Environmental Protection Agency. March 26, 2014.

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. billion increase for the Environmental Protection Agency over FY 2022. . Another amendment from Rep. An amendment from Rep. This includes a $2.11 Water Alliance.

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