Legal Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

Importance of the climate issue. “I believe that climate is existential, but I don’t insist other people believe that. The issue is now so toxic and so radioactive that if you even talk about it, it shuts off people’s brains.” Election and campaign issues.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. Every year, Lake Erie’s western basin turns a murky shade of green from toxic, nutrient-stoked harmful algae blooms. Some interventions are making the problem worse.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 8, 2024

Last year, one of Imperial Oil’s mines in the tar sands leaked toxic industrial waste into the surrounding environment. Now the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) – one of the downstream Indigenous nations impacted by the toxic spill – is taking the AER to court. trillion litres of toxic fluid. In February 2023, 5.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

Three colleagues and I from the Union of Concerned Scientists were invited to participate in a Toxics Tour in Kansas City. The experience was extremely valuable and I recommend it, especially if you are someone like me who works on environmental justice issues but doesn’t live in a frontline community.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, KEEPERS OF THE WATER Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – A year ago, news broke that Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine had been leaking toxic industrial wastewater for over nine months while keeping local Indigenous communities in the dark. One of the incidents spilled 5.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In a major win for community members in South Memphis, Tennessee, a facility emitting a toxic air pollutant— ethylene oxide (EtO)—announced late last month that it will close its doors. Short-term exposure to high levels of EtO can also contribute to respiratory and gastrointestinal issues.

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Nanotech

APRIL 22, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on March 25, 2024, that it has issued the fourth Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) test order requiring testing on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under its National PFAS Testing Strategy.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Currently, fracking is done by injecting massive amounts of water–mixed with sand and often-toxic chemicals–underground to fracture the bedrock, thereby forcing even more subsurface oil and gas deposits to the surface. And that presents a commonsense path to fracking reform.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms Billions spent on strategies to limit nutrient pollution that don’t work. TOLEDO — Just as Great Lakes scientists anticipated, the first blue-green swirls of a mammoth toxic algae bloom surfaced in mid-July in the nearshore waters of Lake Erie, between Monroe, Michigan, and this Ohio port city of 275,000.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This unwelcome visitor continues to make yearly toxic appearances in the warmer months. When it comes to these toxic algae blooms, even a “mild” or smaller bloom is bad news. While some fertilizers are synthetic and full of chemicals ( an issue of its own ), many farmers’ fields are using animal manure to grow their crops.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The EPA issued its first ethylene oxide emissions standard in 1994, but it was, in retrospect, relatively weak. In the meantime, the agency reevaluated the gas’s “toxicity value”—the exposure level that could harm individuals if they inhaled it for a defined length of time—and what it found was alarming.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2024

I based this on how extensively they discuss these issues on their websites. My measure is simple if maybe a little crude: I counted the number of words on the campaign website in the energy and environment tabs dealing with these issues. Also surprisingly, RFK Jr. and Jill Stein came in last in terms of focus on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA recently issued information on 23 locations in the country that are experiencing very high rates of exposure to ethylene oxide from nearby facilities that use it to sterilize medical equipment. You may have heard about the chemical, ethylene oxide (EtO), making headlines lately for posing health risks to communities across the country.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

Encina sold false promises to our state, and this must be a wake-up call to elected officials that toxic boondoggles like chemical recycling have no place in Pennsylvania.” Toxic chemical recycling is a false solution to the plastics crisis. Chemical recycling is not a solution to the plastics crisis. But the fight is not over.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This year in the tar sands region, a major toxic tailings leak, which was covered up for nine months, made international headlines. Impacted Indigenous nations and environmental groups are holding governments accountable for permitting toxic waste to accumulate in the air, lands, and waters. The system is broken.

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Nanotech

APRIL 11, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) important and recently issued first final risk management rule for chrysotile asbestos. Those of us in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) community know asbestos occupies a special place in TSCA’s checkered past, and EPA’s final rule is an important chapter in that book.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While every toxic chemical named in the book was either banned or severely restricted in the United States by 1975, Carson’s underlying message of the need for strong science-based policymaking to protect us from the harms of toxic chemicals is still especially applicable today. These concerns are still alive today.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A disastrous toxic spill in the tar sands In February 2023, 5.3 million litres of toxic industrial wastewater known as tailings spilled from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine in the tar sands into the surrounding environment. trillion litres of toxic wastewater from oil production. Tar sands tailings “ponds,” store over 1.4

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To a large extent the harmful algal blooms that foul Michigan’s waters and turn western Lake Erie into a toxic inland sea are the result of mismatches. . Every five years since 2005, Michigan has issued a general CAFO permit for the state’s largest livestock farms, where thousands of animals are confined indoors for their entire lives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2023

Moreover, the production of even non-toxic chemical end-products might involve toxic emissions during manufacture. EPA has also published draft guidance on cumulative risk assessment principles such as grouping chemicals based on similar toxicity or exposures, and then adding the potential responses from the exposures.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Although no Alberta government has used a moratorium to deal with environmental liabilities before, the province is scarred with abandoned oil and gas wells and vast toxic tailings ponds , large enough to cover Canada’s major cities. The toxic tailings are contaminating the water and land surrounding the operations.

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Nanotech

MARCH 28, 2024

Jim knows this space better than anyone, having worked on the Hill, led EPA’s toxics The post FIFRA Hot Topic Issues — A Conversation with Jim Aidala appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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Nanotech

APRIL 11, 2024

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) consent orders and Significant New Use Rules (SNUR) are issued under Section 5 for specific chemicals. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consent orders and The post Register Now for “Harmonizing TSCA Consent Orders with OSHA HCS 2012” on May 14, 2024, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 30, 2023

Passage of Bill S-5 marks a significant milestone towards better protecting people in Canada and the environment from pollution and toxic chemicals. It introduces long-overdue updates for the control of toxic substances and dangerous chemicals, including requiring that priority be given to prohibiting the most hazardous substances.

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Nanotech

MARCH 28, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to address to the extent necessary the unreasonable risk of injury to health presented by chrysotile asbestos based on the risks posed by certain conditions of use (COU). On March 28, 2024, the U.S.

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Nanotech

MARCH 21, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on March 15, 2024, the availability of and solicited public comment on the 2024 draft risk evaluation for formaldehyde prepared under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA states that it “preliminarily finds that formaldehyde poses unreasonable risk to human health.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 5, 2023

Risk characterization for air toxics. There are lot of important issues here, but I’ll note two for those potentially subject to these regulations. Air quality dispersion modeling. For those interested in commenting on the proposal, MassDEP will hold virtual public hearings on March 7 and 9.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed settlement in a lawsuit over Lake Erie nutrient pollution, a move that would set binding deadlines for state and federal agencies to set pollution limits for the lake. FEMA published an interim final rule that establishes the claims process for people whose property was damaged by the fire.

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Nanotech

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final significant new use rules (SNUR) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for a number of chemical substances that were the subject of premanufacture notices (PMN) and are also subject to Orders issued by EPA pursuant to TSCA. On December 18, 2023, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

This initiative follows through on an executive order President Biden issued on his first day in office to advance racial equity and support underserved communities. In a coordinated effort, more than 90 federal agencies, including all cabinet-level agencies, released more than 300 concrete plans to incorporate equity.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

On February 8, the Pittsburgh-based Environmental Health Project issued this statement on the Ohio/PA train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that resulted in fires and explosions releasing hazardous chemicals into the air. A controlled vent and burn of toxic chemicals took place on February 6 to reduce the risk of a catastrophic explosion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2023

An interview with two leading scientists in the emerging field of cumulative risks and impacts Scientists call the many thousands of toxic chemicals that enter our environment “toxicants.” Individuals in these communities are exposed to more and different toxicants all the time. Do they accumulate in our bodies? Do they harm us?

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2024

Buried beneath the Fifth Ward and its neighboring community, Kashmere Gardens, is an expansive toxic plume of creosote derived from coal tar.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the proposed rule, EPA states that after receiving additional comments following the issuance of the The post EPA Proposes to Amend PBT Rules for decaBDE and PIP (3:1) appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2022

Recent testing has detected toxic PFAS chemicals and heavy metals such as chromium in groundwater and soils. EPA: Two toxic hot spots in Michigan will take longer to clean up than many others in Great Lakes states — Michigan Radio. Waste from a leather tannery was spread on farmland as fertilizer starting in the 1990s. In the News.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Planet Tracker’s Toxic Footprints report revealed the investors behind petrochemical toxicity in the US Gulf states of Louisiana and Texas. When assessing the petrochemicals and plastics industry, toxic emissions are often either ignored or forgotten by the financial markets.

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MARCH 1, 2023

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. But the state of Minnesota uses a lower risk guideline —10 additional cases of cancer in a population of one million—to identify facilities to work with to reduce air toxics emissions. What can be done?

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